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ON THE COVER: University ofRichmond's eighth president, Dr. William E. Cooper, with a live Peruvian pinktoe tarantula (Avicularia urticans)
22 KICKING OFF A THIRD THRILLING SEASON September and October events in the George M. Modlin Center for the Arts
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Dr. John A. Roush, former vice president for planning and executive assistant to the president at the University of Richmond, has been selected as president of Centre College in Danville, Ky. He took office on July 1. In announcing the appointment, Centre College trustee chairman J. David Grissom described Roush as "energetic" and "knowledgeable," adding, "We are confident he is the person to lead Centre into the 21st century." Roush believes he brings to the Centre presidency a sense of passion about quality, a sense of vision about a liberal arts college and what it can become, a deep commitment to young people and most importantly, a real zest for life. He plans to focus on three areas-admission, financial aid and faculty compensationwhile continuing to build on Centre's reputation for undergraduate achievement. A private liberal arts college of about 1,000 students in central Kentucky, Centre is experiencing growth in enrollment, endowment holdings and academic strength. Retiring UR President Dr. Richard L. Morrill served as Centre's president from 1982 to 1988. Roush is the ninth UR administrator or faculty member to become a college president in the last 20 years. The most recent was former political science professor Dr. Thomas R. Morris, named president of Emory & Henry College in Emory, Va., in 1992. An Ohio native, Roush received a bachelor's degree from Ohio Universitywhere he was a three-time Academic AllAmerican in football-and master's and doctoral degrees from Miami University in Ohio. He served in administration at Miami University for nine years before coming to UR in 1982.
"UR is a place ofpossibility and dreams. One can't be at a place for 16yearsand not be shaped by it." - John Roush
j Though .. Roush looked forward to taking charge at Centre, he says that what he will miss most at the University of Richmond are the people, especially the students, because he has enjoyed watching them grow. "UR is a place of possibility and dreams," he says. "One can't be at a place for 16 years and not be shaped by it," he says. He cites as his "great friends and mentors" Morrill and Chancellor E. Bruce Heilman, the two UR presidents he worked with, as well as many others, particularly among his fellow senior administrators. Susie Miller Roush, active in community and public school affairs, and their younger son, Mark, will remain in Richmond for Mark's senior year of high school. Their older son, Luke, is a rising junior at Duke University.The Roushes will make their complete move to Centre next summer. As John Roush moves on to new challenges at a new college, he says that his motivation remains the students, because he sees education as a transforming experience. "It is important for me to be involved in a place that can change lives," he saysone like Centre College and the University of Richmond. Nancy Annett, A W'00 •
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Think prepaid tuition plans are limited to state universities? Think again. If all goes well forTuition Plan Inc., private schools will soon be in on the game. This new nonprofit organization, made up of independent colleges and universities - including the University of Richmond - hopes to be able to offer prepaid tuition certificates, good at all the member colleges, by 1999. Herbert C. Peterson, B'64, UR's vice president of business and finance and a member of TPI's board of directors, explains that the plan will be sold in $1 ,000 increments. Each $1 ,000 certificate will guarantee a certain percentage of the future tuition at one of the member schools. The percentage will vary from school to school, and will increase over time.The percentage of tuition the certificate covers is guaranteed, Peterson says, with all financial risks borne by the schools. "Between parents and grandparents, families can purchase certificates over several years ," he says. "The certificates don 't all have to be bought at once." More than 50 institutions currently belong to TPI, and Peterson expects to see that number reach 100 by December. "Long-term we want to have hundreds of schools with a broad range of academic requirements so that there will be a place for everyone," he says. "Students must meet the admission requirements of the member schools to which they apply." TPI is currently working to change legislation to gain the same tax advantages offered to investors in state-sponsored prepaid tuition plans. The benefits of a private prepaid tuition plan are many, Peterson says. Not only does it broaden the market of people who have the resources to be able to pay for an education at a private school, but by doing so it alleviates the demand on the financial aid funds of the participating schools.
"Long-term we want to have hundreds of schools with a broad range of academic requirements so that there will be a place for everyone."
"To the extent that more people are able to provide for themselves, grant and other money is more freely available to those who cannot," he says. The certificates will be transferable to siblings and even cousins, Peterson says . There is a five-year minimum investment period and refunds will be available with the investor suffering the minimum penalty prescribed by law. Nineteen states currently operate prepaid tuition plans, with 750,000 participants investing about $3 billion. By 2005 , all 50 states are expected to offer such plans, with an estimated 2 million participants investing $6.S billion dollars. "[TPI] came from the idea that although the state plans are good-and Virginia's is very good regarding private schools-they cannot accommodate the higher cost of private institutions," Peterson explains. "The concern is that private schools are at a disadvantage. What we were seeking with this plan is a level playing field ." - Jessica Ronky Haddad, A W'93 •
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UR in "100 Most Wired" The University of Richmond was included among "America's 100 Most Wired Colleges" as Number 76 in the second annual "most wired colleges" feature on the online Yahoo! Internet Life publication. The authors took into account various aspects of electronic services provided on campuses, including infrastructure and social life, but the primary focus was on academic uses. A chart for each of the 100 institutions reported whether it offered such services as online registration and online transcripts (which UR does) as well as percentages of classes requiring online work ( 40 percent at the University). The listing can be found on the World Wide Web at www.zdnet.com/yil/content/college/ U NIVERSITY O F RI C HMON D MAGAZIN E •
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Three prominent speakers delivered keynote addresses during ceremonies of the University of Richmond's 168th Commencement in May. President Richard L. Morrill delivered the address to the 766 bachelor's degree candidates May 10, as he concluded his 10-year presidency at the University. The same weekend , 60 degree recipients at the School of Continuing Studies heard from Robert S. Jepson Jr. , B'64, GB'75 and H'87, chairman of the board and CEO of the Kuhlman Corp. and one of the University's greatest benefactors; and Judge Richard S.Arnold, chief judge of the United States Court of Apeals for the Eighth Circuit, addressed the 160 degree candidates in UR's School of Law. "The Class of 1998 has made its mark on the University of Richmond , and Richmond has made its mark on you," Dr. Morrill told th e graduates. To examine "the enduring impact of a collegiate institution ," he turned to images of the University 's campus. Page • •
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The tradition of Gothic architecture, Morrill said, "has always been tied to shared experience in gathered communities, to the life of learning " in such places as monasteries and universities. "Soaring Gothic towers and archways also suggest the finite reaching for the infinite, forever invoking the spiritual dimension of our lives." In such a setting, "we have been bound together through ties that create a community of shared purpose and common duties .... In hundreds of ways, faculty members and staff members , your peers and your friends have cared about you, supported you , and invested themselves in you and you in them. The silent architecture of community has found its voice in you ," he said. Student speaker Lynsay M. Rahn ,JW '98 , a magna cum laude graduate in leadership studies, compared college memories to "tons of little files " stored in a computer, "that we can call up any time we want to."
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Honorary degrees were awarded to Leslie M. "Bud" Baker Jr. , R'64, president and CEO ofWachovia Corp; Pascal Gerard Joel Chaigneau, head of instruction at the Academie Diplomatique Internationale and chief administrator of a group of French universities with which UR has exchange agreements; and Marita S. Golden, professor and senior fiction writer in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Baker was recognized for leadership in corporate America and his community, Chaigneau for dedication to international education, and Golden for leadership in the cause of African-American literature. Outgoing rector of the Board ofTrustees,Austin Brockenbrough III, B'62, received the Trustees' Distinguished Service Award in recognition of outstanding service to the University. In his address at the law school commencement, Judge Arnold challenged the 160 graduates to look inside themselves. "Every problem begins with an individual and every solution begins with an individual," he said. "Try to pay more attention to people." Also speaking during the ceremony were student speaker Wendell L. Taylor, 1'98, Student Bar Association president for 1997-98, and faculty speaker Gra-
ham B. Strong, professor of law. Judge Arnold received an honorary doctor of laws degree. A touching moment during the School of Continuing Studies commencement came when Peggy Gravely was surprised to find her three sons-all UR graduates themselveswaiting to present her with her diploma. Earlier, speaker Jepson challenged the 60 graduates to use their education to contribute to society and congratulated them for juggling school and family during "many long evening hours." Student speaker was Karen Gayle Smith-Will, C'98, the graduate with the highest grade-point-average. The school's 1998 Distinguished Faculty Award went to Mary-Ellen Alexander Kendall, an adjunct faculty member for 10 years who has helped develop the paralegal studies program. Charles K.Trible, C'68, received the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus Award (seep. 25), and the Jean H. Proffitt Student Service Award went to Donna Lee "Dee"Wallain, C'98. Also speaking Commencement weekend were University chaplain Dr. David D. Burhans and student speaker Vincent R. "Vinnie" Olivieri Jr., AR'98 (see story p. 14), at baccalaureate services.
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Three named trustees Three new members have been elected to the University of Richmond's Board ofTrustees.The Hon. James C. Roberts, L'57, Jeremiah J. Sheehan and the Rev. William G. Wilson Jr. began serving their fouryear terms July 1. Roberts, an attorney with Mays & Valentine since 1957, has been a substitute judge for the Henrico County, Va., General District Court since 1967. A graduate of HampdenSydney College and the TC.Williams School ofLaw, Roberts won the Charles T. Norman Medal as the best graduate in law in 1957 and is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa. He has served on the boards of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Richmond Police Benevolent Association, among others, is a member of the MCV Foundation and has been chair of the University ofVirginia School of Nursing's advisory board. The winner of the first Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Award by the Virginia State Bar in 1993, Roberts is listed under four categories in The Best Lawyers in America. He has served as president of both the Richmond and the Virginia bar associations. Sheehan, who graduated from Hunter College in New York, has been the chairman and CEO of Reynolds Metals since 1996. He joined Reynolds in 1988 as head of the can division and became executive vice president of consumer packaging and products in 1990. Three years later he was promoted to executive vice president of fabricated products and was named president and chief operating officer in 1994. Before joining Reynolds , Sheehan was president
and general manager of Continental Can Co., where he worked for 24 years. He has served as chairman of the board of Keep America Beautiful and as director of Union Camp Corp. and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Sheehan has been active at the University of Richmond as a member of the business school's executive advisory board. The elected chairman of the Virginia Baptist Mission Board of the Baptist General Association for 1997-98,Wilson is the pastor of First Baptist Church in Waynesboro,Va. His service to Virginia Baptists has included a term as first vice president of the Baptist General Association, serving as a member of the Religious Herald board of trustees and as chair of the Virginia Pastors' Network. Wilson holds degrees from Murray State University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky. He also served as pastor of Farmville Baptist Church and as minister with youth and recreation at the First Baptist Church of Greenville, S.C. He is a member of the Waynesboro Rotary Club and is a co-founder and board member of the Farmville Area Habitat for Humanity. Robert L. Burrus Jr. , R'55 and chairman of McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe, was elected the board's new rector. Elaine ].Yeatts, W'64 and G'89, the senior regulatory analyst for Virginia's Depertment of Health Professions, was elected vice rector.
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Tenure & promotions Eighteen University faculty members were granted tenure and 16 were given promotions by the Board of Trustees.Those named by the board are listed below with their new ranks.
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Dr. Azizah Y. al-Hibri Professor of law Dr. Hilquias B. Cavalcanti Associate professor of sociology Dr. Rafael Omar de Sa Associate professor of biology Dr. Claudia Ferman Associate professor of Spanish Maryl. Heen Professor of law Dr. Kathleen M. Hewitt-Smith Associate professor of English Dr. Kapanga M. Kasongo Associate professor of French Dr. KimMarie McGoldrick Associate professor of economics Dr. Joseph E. Obi Associate professor of sociology and international studies Dr. William T. Ross Associate professor of mathematics Dr. Anthony P. Russell Associate professor of English Dr. Miranda E. Shaw Associate professor of religion Dr. L. Carol Summers Associate professor of history Faculty members receiving tenure Dr. G. Scott Davis Associate professor of religion Dr. Robert C. Kenzer Associate professor of history and American studies Dr. Gill R. Hickman Professor of leadership studies Rodney A. Smolla Professor of law and holder of the George E Allen Chair in Law Dr. Thomas Wren Associate professor of leadership studies Faculty members receiving promotions Kelley H. Bartges Associate clinical professor of law and director of the Youth Advocacy Clinic Dr. Elaine Traynelis-Yurek Professor of education Dr. John Treadway Professor of history
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Fellowship, grant noted Studying coups in West Africa Dr.Jimmy D. Kandeh, associate professor of political science, has been awarded a sabbatical fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.The grant, to be administered by the University of Richmond, will support Kandeh's project "Coups from Below:The Militariat and State Power in West Africa." "Unlike the first wave [in the '60s and '70s] of military coups in Africa, which were carried out by disaffected senior officers, coups in the contemporary period have been mostly led by military subalterns or the militariat," Kandeh says. "By focusing on what the militariat does when it rules, this study hopes to contribute to our understanding of the changing dynamics and functionality of violence inAfrican politics." The project will culminate in a book, as well as several articles to appear in political science and African studies journals. A native of Sierra Leone, Kandeh is the author of several books and articles on African and Caribbean politics and the political economy of underdevelopment.
Equipment for non-science majors Students with little more than high school chemistry experience now are using new, sophisticated scientific equipment in a new course designed specifically for non-science
majors who need to fulfill their natural science requirement. Dr. Stuart C. Clough, R'65 ,and Dr. Christopher L. Stevenson, chemistry department faculty, have received a $33 ,000 award from the National Science Foundation toward the purchase of equipment for the course, Chemical Structure Determination, an introduction to how chemists determine the structures of compounds. The grant, matched by the University, enabled the purchase of an infrared spectrophotometer, an ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer, and a gas chromatograph interfaced with a mass spectrometer. Z In the new course, designed by Dr. Emma Goldman, students are ' required to use ' collaborative problem-solving skills as they gain firsthand experience in using technology to solve scientific Dwyer problems. With the new instrumentation, they identify unknown samples, which may include common substances such as ibuprofen and aspirin, food additives such as BHA and BHT, and environmental chemicals including pesticides. The new instruments also are used in the very successful annual chemistry workshop for high school teachers and students offered by the department each May. Diana Tho mpson Vince/li •
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Baseball in NCAAs third time in four years The University of Richmond baseball team recorded its second-highest win total in school history with a 41-17-1 mark for the 1998 season.The Spiders captured their second consecutive Colonial Athletic Association title and advanced to the NCAA Regionals for the fifth time in school history and the third time in the past four years. The Spiders were off to a strong start with an overall record of 28-8-1 and a 14-3 mark in the CAA by mid-April. They did not lose more than two in a row during the first 37 games of the season. Entering the CAA Tournament, the Spiders had a 36-15-1 overall record and were the No. 2 seed with a 15-6 conference mark.They topped No. 7Wilmington 5-2 in the first round. Richmond received an outstanding pitching performance from sophomore righthander Mike Smith in the second round against No. 3-seed James Madison. Smith went 11 innings, a tournament record, with four hits, one run, three walks and nine strikeouts as the Spiders outlasted the Dukes 6-1. Top-seeded VCU was UR's third-round opponent. Junior Mike Dwyer was the winning pitcher and the top hitter, hitting a pair of two-run homers to lead the Spiders to an 8-4 win over the Rams. Richmond then overpowered Old Dominion 12-1 in the most lopsided championship game in CAA
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feated the Demon Deacons 4-0 earlier in the season. Richmond led 4-3 heading into the eighth inning, but Wake Forest scored twice in the eighth and once in the ninth and took the 6-5 win. UR met host Florida in the third round and the Gators routed the Spiders 15-3, ending Richmond's season for the second consecutive season. "It was a very satisfying season," says UR head coach Ron Atkins. "I am very proud of our players. I am proud of the hard work and effort they put forth. We hope this will be the cornerstone for seasons to come." Among many post-season honors, first baseman Dwyer and junior second baseman Nate Rewers were named first team All-CAA. Senior outfielder John Wagler and senior third baseman Jeff Wood were named second team All-CAA. Freshman outfielder Nie Jackson was named to the All-Regional team. Dwyer, who set UR and CAA records with 24 home runs this season, was named first team All-East Region and third team All-America. Phil Stanton •
Doubles team is No.13 Seniors Lesia Bilak and Bridget Merrick comprised Richmond 's No. 1 doubles team this past season and had one of the best years in UR women's tennis history. The pair was ranked No. 13 in the nation and was one of the top 32 duos in the country who were invited to compete for the national championship on the campus of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. Bilak and Merrick fell in the first round, losing in straight sets to the No. 1 doubles team of Dawn Buth and Stephanie Nickitas from the University of Florida, 6-4, 6-1. The Gators had won the national team championship earlier in the weekend, capping off an undefeated season, and their doubles tandem entered the tournament as the topranked team in the nation, having won back-to-back national titles. Despite the loss, Bilak and Merrick had an outstanding senior campaign. They won the Rolex Indoor Eastern Championship in
Gregory November and reached the quarterfinals at the National Championships in February. They were named first-team AllColonial Athletic Association and compiled a 31-5 record during their senior season. In fall action, Bilak and Merrick also won doubles titles at the N.C. State Wolfpack Invitational and the Old Dominion Invitatiorn\l. They compiled a 17-2 fall record. In spring action, the duo compiled a 14-3 record and at one point had a 13match winning streak. The pair was ranked as high as No. 9 in the nation and finished the year ranked 13th.They then capped off their season by being named the senior female athletes of the year by the University of Richmond Spider Club. Richmond 's .!I';'.:·~ women's tennis \. team competed in the NCAA Regionals for the second consecutive year. The eighth-seeded Spiders fell to top-seeded William & Mary 5-1 in Blacksburg,Va., in May.
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Dr. Frances Wheeler Gregory, professor emerita of history at the University of Richmond, died May 17. She was 85. Dr. Gregory taught at the University for 30 years. She joined the faculty of Westhampton College in 1950 and became a full professor in 1966, retiring in 1980. She served six years as chairman of Westhampton College's history department and helped create the history honors program. In 1987 the history department honored her with the creation of the Francis W. Gregory Award, which is given annually to the best graduate in history at Westhampton College.A member of many professional organizations, Dr. Gregory was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa. Dr. Gregory was the author of Nathan Appleton, Merchant and Entrepreneur, 1779-1861 , published in 1975 by the University Press of Virginia. For her research on Appleton, a Boston merchant, politician and capitalist, she received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a grant from the Society of the Cincinnati. She wrote and co-wrote a number of historical articles including the essay "The American Industrial Elite in the 1870s:Their Social Origins;' which appeared in the 1962 book, Men in Business. A native of Montclair, N.]. , Dr. Gregory held a bachelor's degree from Sweet Briar College; master's degrees from Columbia University and Radcliffe College; and a Ph.D. in American history from Radcliffe. Dr. Gregory was a member of the Virginia Historical Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Richmond. She is survived by a niece , Mary Gregory Hardy; a nephew, Richard H. Gregory III; two great-nieces and a grandnephew. Gifts in her honor may be made to the Frances W. Gregory Award at the University.
Dr.William S.Woolcott, the D.A. Kuyk professor emeritus at the University of Richmond, died April 18. He was 76. Dr. Woolcott joined the University's biology department in 1955. He was appointed to the Kuyk Chair in 1980 and remained in that position until he retired in 1992. A graduate of Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, Dr. Woolcott earned a master's degree from George Peabody College, now a part of Vanderbilt University, in Nashville. He taught biology for four years at CarsonNewman College,Jefferson City,Tenn., and graduated in 1955 from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in vertebrate zoology. A specialist in ichthyology, Dr. Woolcott was the curator of the University's research fish collection. In his 37 years at the University of Richmond, he conducted research and authored more than 60 scientific publications. His research continued even after retirement, when with Dr. Eugene Maurakis he coproduced a videotape , "Phylogenetics Systematics," which is used as an educational tool at a number of museums and universities throughout the world. A recipient of UR's Distinguished Educator Award, Dr. Woolcott also served as coordinator of the graduate program in biology and as chairman of the faculty research committee. He was a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Society for American Zoologists , the American Society for Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the Virginia Academy of Science. Dr. Woolcott was a member of River Road Church, Baptist, and was a former board member of the Maymont Foundation and the Virginia Nature Conservancy League. He is survived by his wife, Betty Gilbert Woolcott, of Richmond , and two daughters: Neil W. Powell of Goldsboro , N.C. , and Catherine W. Edwards of Richmond.
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L~ l~Ll=l='rll-.'..G WL'1.t{ President Bill Cooper brings an element of surprise. Of a college president, you expect the incisive intelligence, the wit, the dignity. But these qualities are delivered not from the comfy chair, with fingers steepled contemplatively, but during what many might consider an aerobic workout. "I pace," he explains as he begins a circle around the room which grows, as his thoughts and ideas flow and refine, to something like a vortex. BY RANDY FITZGERALD, R'63 AND G'64
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His ready energy and bias for action accompany a dialogue that leaves no doubt that Bill Cooper is at Richmond to learn, to lead and to have some fun. He chose the presidency at Richmond over another offer because, "this community, this team is going somewhere." He believes that the University of Richmond sits at a pivotal juncture where nothing less than a full-out quest for discovery, growth and creative achievement-a collaborative process he calls "a grand adventure"-will do.
"It was a wonderful upbringing. I would not be in academics today had I not breathed that atmosphere at a young age." Neither of Cooper's parents was a college graduate, but both parents instilled in him the values of hard work and high expectations. His late father William managed a shoe store, and his paternal grandfather was a minister. His mother Mildred, who still resides in Lancaster, worked for state and federal government agencies.
L{LS l.=2~L:t.=L:;,Ll.=ll'..l?l.=S hll'..12 credentials have prepared him well for the journey. L:....S L:... s1.¡l! 12 l.=ll'.. 1.¡ at Brown University, Cooper was Dr. William E. Cooper has been associated with some taught by Peter Eimas and Sheila Blumstein, two of the of the most distinguished universities in the nation. He foremost leaders in the psychology of speech, who introduced him to cognitive science. "I delved into my was an undergraduate at Brown, a graduate and postdoctoral student at MIT and a professor at Harvard. He discipline sparked by these professors," he says. also has been a dean at Tulane and an executive vice After getting both bachelor's and master's degrees at president at Georgetown. Brown in 1973, he went on to get a Ph.D. in cognitive So he knows something about quality in higher science from MIT in 1976. After a postdoctoral fellowship education, and he has enjoyed breathing the rarefied at MIT, he became a faculty member at Harvard and later at the University of Iowa. He has authored or co-authored air of Cambridge and beyond. But while those universities are still full of adventure for him, they are not the be-all and end-all. "The first time you meet a Nobel Prize winner, it's very exciting," he says of his MIT and Harvard days. "But these institutions have so many notable scholars that you soon realize the achievements of any one individual will not appreciably influence their course." The fact that individual achievement counts so much here is one of the reasons Bill Cooper chose Richmond. "Faculty members and administrators who have come here over the last several years have seen that opportunity to make a difference as well," Cooper says. Cooper has experienced how colleges and universities can transform individuals nearly all Dr. Mary Churchill, psychologist in the counseling and psychological services, and Dr. Tinina Cade, director ofmulticultural affairs, greet Dr. Cooper after the his life. "I practically grew up on the campus of Franklin & Marshall in Lancaster, Pa.," he says. announcement ofhis presidency May I J. "Many of my friends were children of F&M professors. five books and more than 100 scholarly articles on brain That's how I grew to admire academic life." mechanisms involving speech perception and production. One professor whom Cooper saw as a role model In 1989 he became dean of the faculty at Tulane and took him to the state legislature in Harrisburg. "John began to hone his administrative skills. The change Pittinger gave me a feel for government circles and suited him. "I always held broader interests," he says. how an academic perspective can play a role in "I liked to pick up a New Yorker or read about a crafting legislation. chemistry experiment. Administration lets me use all UN IVERSITY OF RI C H MOND MAGAZINE •
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my intellectual interests. It has helped to satisfy my appetite for learning as much as I can about many different fields." To put it simply, Cooper loves learning, loves all things academic. "Loving what you are doing gets you through the rainy days. That's the thing that tends to drive successful presidents. They just believe so much in what they're doing for the program they will walk through whatever they have to walk through. I know the presidency can be a grueling job, but you do it because you love what you do." GUU L=-l.=L 1. Lif:..~ LM:..l2l.= a careful study of university presidential leadership. His presidential role models include scholars who became presidents like James Bryant Conant of Harvard, Henry Wriston of Brown and John Kemeny of Dartmouth. The title of Conant's autobiography, My Several Lives, summarizes the appeal he has for Cooper. "He was a faculty member in chemistry, tapped to be Harvard's president, and later, ambassador to Germany, all fascinating career chapters in a very full life. Conant helped to build Harvard with an uncanny ability both to devise grand strategy and attend to key details during implementation." Brown's Henry Wriston, another favorite who wrote an autobiography, was a historian and the first nonBaptist president of Brown. "He led a number of major initiatives, transforming a university with a fairly modest profile into an academic dynamo." Kemeny at Dartmouth was a pioneering computer scientist. As a faculty member he developed the BASIC computer language in the 1960s, and as president his initiatives included ushering in coeducation at Dartmouth. These presidents were faculty members who made real inroads in their scholarly fields. Cooper believes they're apt models for higher education. While he believes that having a "personal feel for what faculty lives are like is crucial to being a president," so is an understanding of students. Cooper is anxious to open his doors to them. "We're here for the students. We want to know what works for them and what can be improved." Discussion, cooperation and collaboration are words Cooper uses and means.
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He also values interacting with boards, noting he has learned a lot from CEOs, attorneys, and others who make up the ranks of boards of trustees. "They bring wonderful perspectives." He has been impressed with the membership of Richmond's Board of Trustees and Board of Associates. He finds them "dedicated and very earnest about their responsibilities" and believes "they are crucial for the success of this university." He also believes that a president in any university has "a unique responsibility to be the principal fund raiser." To do that, "you learn as much as you can about academic needs. You find out what the priorities are. Then you go through a continuous learning process by exchanging views about priorities with donors." L:l.=cl=-Ll.= WliC kl~CW Cooperbethewillbea terrific president in the tradition of his role models. Father Leo O'Donovan, president of Georgetown University, says of his former executive vice president for the Main Campus: "He has brought to Georgetown strong leadership, innovative ideas, and a commitment to excellence. Dr. Cooper is a hands-on leader who has shown an especially strong commitment to diversity, and has a unique ability to collaborate with faculty. "In addition, he has a bold vision of the future of higher education, and excels at long-range strategic planning. The strengths that served Dr. Cooper so well at Georgetown no doubt will allow him to thrive at the University of Richmond as well." Dr. Theresa Soufas, dean of the faculty of the liberal arts and sciences at Tulane who worked with and then succeeded Cooper there, agrees: "I'm quite excited. This is a great match.
"His legacy here is very strong. He hired very strong faculty members, who are the basis of our excellent curriculum, research and teaching and put in place a strong support system. I could point to every single department." "Certainly he has the background, the experience to take on academic administration, both personally and professionally. I predict great success for him and a very happy outcome for the University of Richmond." What about Cooper's style as president? "I try not to take myself too seriously," he laughs. "I try to make people feel comfortable, and I am open to different perspectives." Cooper is reluctant to talk about himself, but when pushed will say he is "matter-of-fact, accessible, a quick study, willing to agree to disagree." Soufas corroborates Cooper's self-portrait: "All of my faculty colleagues would agree that he is very accessible, always able to meet to discuss issues. He is a good listener with strong analytical and interpretive skills. He also has the ability to inject sensitivity and humor and to create a level of comfort in difficult discussions." As another Tulane colleague put it during the search process, "He's brilliant but humane." One of Cooper's biggest tests came four or five years ago, Soufas says, when he was asked by the president to chair an initiative called Tulane 2000. "There were a number of financial issues that needed to be resolved. It was a huge responsibility he had to shoulder for the entire academic year as well as holding down the deanship." Cooper agreed that that time was a test of his leadership abilities. "We were simply overburdened financially. We had to make some hard decisions to trim in some areas in order to be able to grow in others. It's difficult to keep morale high in the face of those challenges, but Tulane and other universities have been strengthened by such discipline and teamwork."
l:LLL t:0QL:L=l:;, 1 L=Lll'LLL\' man, and his wife, Dr. Clarissa S. Holmes, also were attracted to Richmond because the community seemed a great place for their two daughters, Ashley, 11; and Courtney, 6. "There is a high quality of life for families here," Holmes says. Holmes, who is nationally known for her research on children with diabetes, will be professor in the department of psychology in the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, with affiliate research professor appointments in the departments of pediatrics and psychiatry in the VCU School of Medicine. Holmes and Cooper met when they were both on the faculty at Iowa, and they have spent their married life as a dual-career couple. Obviously the odds for both to get positions at the same university are enhanced at larger schools and some compromises have to be made, but "it has always worked out," Holmes says. The city of Richmond happened to have both a smaller private university and a large research university, ideal for the couple. Holmes, who has been an academic colleague of Cooper, is very proud of her husband: "I am his biggest fan. He deserves to be president, and I'm glad he has this opportunity. Richmond is fortunate to have a president who is responsive, open and dedicated and who has such a clear view of the big picture." They are a close-knit family, playing each other in tennis and basketball, with an elaborate handicap system to make the teams even. Dr. Bill Cooper and his Courtney, for example, is wife, Dr. Clarissa Holmes allowed some liberal bounces
in both basketball and tennis. She recently made her first basket in game conditions with a Richmond women's basketball camp basketball, Cooper reports. Both girls are excellent swimmers, and both play piano. The family enjoys eating out. The kids often argue for the Silver Diner, a '50s place with a glowing jukebox. Mom and Dad like Pulcinella's, an Italian restaurant where opera is performed once in a while,
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I was at 14." The realization, however, came after her death, and he never got to meet her. He did become a poet, though, writing in earnest at Tulane. "Discovering that I could write poetry was a wonderful experience. It's a different mindset." He "takes notes on all sorts of things, " in a diary and is fond of saving poems or snippets of poems in folders. Some of his poems are on scientific discovery, some are Bill Cooper and Clarissa Holmes with their daughters, Courtney, 6, and Ashley, 11 very place-oriented, or Tachibana, for Japanese food . They also go to plays, and some are very person-oriented, he says. Some are music and dance recitals and art exhibits. about Brazil, some about his childhood. There is one Their family house in McLean reflects their internaabout a childhood friend who died in Vietnam. There are tional interests: African, Asian, Egyptian and European art. poems about his daughters in their early years, their At Georgetown Cooper bestowed honorary degrees on Kim "early verbalization," "their fractured logic" that Dae Jung of South Korea and Fidel Ramos, president of the interests the scientist in him. Philippines, and met other international leaders like Taking notes or writing scraps of poems can be "a Chile's Eduardo Frei. Being able to converse with world wonderful antidote to administrative life. I can see William leaders, many of whom are extremely well educated, has Carlos Williams [the New Jersey poet who had a full-time given him "faith in the world order," he says. medical practice] writing notes between patients. People would never guess that I write poetry when I'm doing LL= C-QQL=-1...:l,h::: \W~.L:;,Lt1t'J.li. and administrative skills administration. '' belie the stereotypical image of the researcher, his being a poet completely bamboozles those who like to pigeonhole people. He started writing poetry after his 1984 trip to Brazil as a Fulbright scholar. He became acquainted with the work of poet Elizabeth Bishop in the little mining town of Ouro Preto, Brazil, where she lived for many years. He further discovered that when she was at Harvard, she lived next door to Cooper. "She was at 16 Chauncy Street;
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May 11, Cooper spent one or two days a week on campus meeting with faculty leaders and administrators before starting full-time on July 1. "The big question now," he says, "is 'what are those bold strokes that would enhance further development of the University in years to come?' Do we spend more on programs already in place, or do we develop new ones?
"We don't have deficits, huge deferred maintenance, huge debt like many colleges and universities. Some schools operate year to year, but we have a very strong profile financially. We have balanced present needs with future prospects, and we need to continue to do that." "The test for new programs," he says, "is whether they represent the best academic investments we can make for the long term." Cooper feels that one of the ways to determine a university's direction is to study institutional models. The Williams model, for example, focuses primarily on undergraduate education. The comprehensive universities have Ph.D. programs. Richmond focuses on undergraduate education, but it also has some master's level programs, some professional schools. "That's an unusual model," he admits. "Should we become great by developing the comprehensive master's university model? Should we have a few vanguard Ph.D. programs? How should we build the best possible learning community, in which all our programs mutually reinforce one another?" These are but some of the questions he poses for University-wide discussion. "The academic world is not a one-size-fits-all. Whatever course we decide to take, Richmond has to be true to Richmond." (?(2 <2 L:t..=L:;, L-i.L!...S ~'l-Ul.2Ll..=l.2 the history of the
University of Richmond and is enthralled with the foresight and overwhelming generosity of heroes throughout UR's existence. "For an institution of Richmond's size, to have donors such as the Robins family, the Jepson family, joined by so many others, is truly remarkable," he says. He's also impressed with the strong morale and the strong alumni base. "Richmond is an institution that never stands still. That's the mark of all great universities." Even before the big gifts, that characteristic was one of the hallmarks of Richmond, Cooper feels. "How dedicated the founders were to shepherd the institution's resources
through lean times, to the point where it was possible to make the giant step enabled by E. Claiborne Robins in 1969. None of the excitement of the last 30 years would have been possible if earlier leaders had not built such a fine university." There were the "heroes who moved the campus from downtown." That was a "pioneering effort," Cooper says. "Some people must have thought that act was folly, but it was trulyvisionary. " Prior to being approached, Cooper had known of Richmond through stories about the Robins gift, through two UR students he and his family knew, through Richard L. Morrill's reputation as a strategic planner. "I knew Richmond was on the radar as a rising university known for highquality programs, but I didn't know it in depth. " Enter trustees Robert L. Burrus Jr., R'SS, chair of the search committee; Rector Austin Brockenbrough III, B'62; and faculty member Dr.Jane M. Berry, associate professor of psychology. The trio called on Cooper in Washington to discuss the presidency, and Cooper has been impressed with the University's people ever since. "It was obvious how deeply they care about the University of Richmond. They gave me some in-depth information to read, and ever since I have been struck with how Richmond is built to last. The possibility of being its president stood out as a special opportunity."
WL-i.l..=L~ L!...SL~l..=12 L-i.0 W it feels to become a member of the Spider family, Cooper smiles and replies, "It is an honor to be associated with a species so well known for creating something larger than itself." With that he circles the room once more and is out the door. Fitzgerald is director ofpublic relations at the University and a contributing editor to the University of Richmond Magazine.
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n the drive down to Richmond from her home in New York in the fall of 1994, incoming UR first-year student Michele Walls-a member of the first generation of her family to attend college-sat in the back seat and listened with good humor to a familiar conversation between her mother and father. Mr. Walls, a retired New York City police officer, and Mrs. Walls, a secretary, were discussing once again their daughter's prospects for a successful college experience, recalling what a joiner and doer Michele had been during her years of high school back in Hawthorne, N.Y. "Everyone's going to know her at Richmond, too, " said Mr. Walls. "She's going to do all kinds of great things and really - -/ makeadifferencethere. " ~ I~ • ~ "Oh, Michael," said Michele's ~ more realistic mom, "don 't you put ~-----________________ that kind of pressure on her. In an f O environment as large as the aw \~ University of Richmond, you know ). e1:1J.1ty she's not. " 1 Four years later, one sunny Sunday this May, Michele Walls Delta, and then became its president around at a reception chatting graduated from the University of for three years. And now, she was with E.L. Doctorow, but r was. Richmond as an English major with savoring the prospect of her first I would never have thought that a list of activities and honors nearly year at Harvard Law School. professors would end up being my as long as the credits on NYPD Blue. "Well," laughs Walls, "since I friends , but they are. " It included membership in six was here, I thought I might as well Those professors, walls says, different honorary societies, get my money's worth." are the "most wonderful thing about including Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Walls says that during her four the University. When I gave tours to Delta Kappa and Mortar Board; years at UR, "I had this absolutely prospective students, r always told membership on the judiciary amazing stuff going on around me them that. " As "the perfect council, debate team and class all the time, and I just resolved that example" of an outstanding UR cabinet; and service as a student I was going to do anything and professor, "one who challenges you admissions representative and a everything that even remotely so much both in and out of class," language tutor. She also was a interested me. I wanted to attend Michele mentions Dr. Suzanne scholarship recipient and vice every campus event, get involved in Jones, who taught several of her president and president of Golden a lot of areas and activities, and not English classes. Key honorary society. She had miss a thing. " "When my parents sold my breathed new life into a longShe didn't. From plays to childhood home and r was sad, she defunct pre-law fraternity, Phi Alpha debates to sporting events, Walls was the one I went to talk to. She got was there. "I never would have to know all about my family, my thought during that ride down boyfriend. How many universities here," she says , "that one day are there where a professor would before long I would be standing know so much about a student?"
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Walls, who came to Richmond with a Coca-Cola Scholarship and credits a series of jobs, scholarships and financial aid for getting her through, says she found her classmates equally supportive. "You hear horror stories about competition at college, but I've never encountered a warmer, more supportive group. "As I got to know more people, it was obvious that everyone had their own hurdles, their own different kinds of problems. " Walls' first big project-the one she terms "the mark I'm leaving on the University"-was Phi Alpha Delta, the pre-law fraternity she brought back to life. "I had tossed law school around in my head my whole life," Walls says, "but I had a lot of questions. I felt the fraternity would be a valuable resource, but I had no idea whether I could really get it going. One thing I learned here, though, is that almost anything is possible, if you put enough effort behind it." So when the student activities office told her she'd need 15 potential members to revive the prelaw fraternity, she came back with 24.Similarly,whenshegotajob calling for her to work 10 hours a week, she worked more than that in overtime. And once she settled on her career, she turned her sights to Harvard Law. "I didn't go to a high school that cranks out kids for Ivy League schools," Walls says. "The fact that I came here would have been enough, but Harvard does have a nice ring to it. I would like to go back to my high school now and tell them all that they have no idea what's available to them out here, if they're willing to go for it." After her impressive list of accomplishments as an undergraduate, Walls says she just wants "to blend in" at Har¥ard. "Now that I'm going to law school , I don 't expect to have time for anything else. This time I'm the one who doesn't want to put any pressure on myself. "At least," she adds, predictably, "until I have a little while to adjust. "
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aurizio Bartolini, also a member of the class of 1998, has been as quiet and as unassuming a force on campus in the past three years as Walls has been whirling dervish. Bartolini does not have a long list of clubs and activities on his resume, nor has he ever lived in a dorm or run for student office. Yet the impact of this 37-year-old native of Italy upon the University-and the University's impact on him-have been significant. Born and raised in Cesena, Italy, a small city on the northeastern coast near the Adriatic Sea, Bartolini always had a thirst for "learning, traveling, and experiencing," he says, as a teenager. After high school, he took off to see the world, living first in France, then in England, then in Switzerland, learning the languages of each country and gaining experience in the hotel and restaurant trades ("the hospitality business," he calls it) along the way. In Switzerland, he met a Richmond woman , Morgan Massey, at a wholistic health learning center where both were working as chefs. "We literally met in a kitchen," says Morgan, now Maurizio's wife and mother of their four-year-old son, Massey. ADuke graduate with a major in economics and a n\inor in French, Morgan shares her husband's iilterests not just in cooking but in business, languages and learning.
When Bartolini decided in his thirties to go to college and prepare himself for starting his own hospitality business someday, Morgan was completely supportive. "Having a husband as a full-time student has been a dream," she says. "He was often home during the day, and I could always call on him fo r help with Massey and for emotional support. I've really gotten spoiled in the past few years. " Bartolini actually began his degree at Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond;
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but after determining that he was capable of doing college work, he decided that he wanted a more traditional college setting in which to do it. At that point he transferred across town to UR, from which he graduated in May, majoring in finance and accounting. "This experience," he says, "has been tremendous. I learned something new every day I was here." Bartolini was a little concerned coming in, knowing he was probably one of the oldest students on campus-including
many of the graduate students. "The student body," he says, "has been wonderful to me. They are refreshing young people here, very bright, competitive students. "I knew I was in a different category from most," he laughs, "when I started getting double mail- things addressed to me, and things addressed to the parents of myself." Not only were his fellow students far younger, but many of his professors were younger than he as well. "But I was always receptive to what they had to teach me," he says, "and many, many days I was the last person to leave class, staying a few minutes longer to learn one more thing." His professors say Bartolini was an excellent example for the younger students, not only totally receptive to learning but focused and mature. He has served as one of the more popular language tutors during his UR years, making good use of his fluency in Italian and French. "I came here with the maturity and the practical experiences out in the world," Bartolini says, "but I lacked the intellectual challenges, and I have found those in abundance. My leadership class was invaluable, for instance-it should be required in the business curriculum. "I've also learned to communicate far better, to get my message across. Public speaking used to be terrifying for me; but with all the class presentation you have to do here, you either get over it or spend years being terrified. " Adean's list student, Bartolini actually finished all his degree requirements a year ago, but stayed on an extra year "just to enhance my degree and my possibilities," and because there were still many things he wanted to learn. "I've loved every minute of it," he says. ~ He has already started work at a regional CPA firm and expects to be in an MBA program in the next five _________. years. "Now that I've had this wj1-L experience," he says, "I can't stand f..ll not to be learning."
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Just about. Boney's accomplishments included membership in Phi Eta Sigma, the freshman national honor society; varsity debate team; UR Forum Debate; the presidency of the Ngoma African Dance Company and presidency of the Multicultural Student Union; Student Affairs Committee; Umoja UR Gospel Choir; and member of Phi Alpha Delta prelaw fraternity. She was a CIGNA Scholar and a Bonner Scholar; and she received recognition (twice) by Omicron Delta Kappa, once as founder of the dance company and again as a campus leader-all this while she was still just a sophomore.
Boney marvels that she could accomplish so much so fast in what she calls "the most conservative environment I have been in in my whole life. " She puzzles over what she sees as a wide divergence between the way faculty and administration support diversity and new ideas, and the reluctance she found in the student body to embrace either. "If there was something I needed to do here, I went directly to the administration or the faculty and knew it would happen. It didn 't matter who I needed to talk tosomebody's door was always open. The only barrier I ran into was from the students. "If I had something that required student approval rather than simply administration support,
I knew it would be a longer, harder, and less likely process-and it always was." Nevertheless, Boney feels that each incoming class gets a little more open to new ideas. "And I must say by the time my class got to be seniors, we had all learned a few things. "I know I've grown and learned about myself because I had to. If you're the only black person in a class, you're forced to look at your identity. Are the things that I have held to be important just superficial? Was it possible that after years of believing people should be proud of what they are, that I had never really embodied that thought?" Boney, a leadership studies major, says it's a good thing she didn't come to UR for the social life "because I didn't fit into that scene at all. " Nevertheless, she has good friends and doubts she would have been able to accomplish anywhere else what she has achieved here. "I wouldn't trade my UR experiences for anything," she says. "I learned so much here. Professors said to me early on, 'Don't just read what's in the syllabus. Reach outside the class, outside yourself.' And I've done that. I've read and studied what I wanted. Before, I had always just done what I had to do to get the A. " One of her outside quests led her to find her family's tribe in Ghana. Others led to travel all over the country, from a visit to New York with the debate team to a Native American reservation in Texas. Still another quest led away from her long-planned career in law. "I worked at both the law library and a law firm while I was here," she says, "and many of the attorneys I talked to just weren't happy. They had chosen law to pursue truth and justice, and ended up bound by the letter of the law instead. So I changed directions and took a job in the Philadelphia office of CIGNA. " This was an interesting choice for Markita since she came to UR first on a CIGNA Weekend and held a CIGNA scholarship her entire four years. "The company has been an integral part of my college life," she says. "It seems appropriate to move on with it."
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hen Vinnie Olivieri heard that President Richard Morrill was retiring this summer, he and a classmate decided that since they were graduating in May and unemployed, they might as well apply for the job. So, tongue-in-cheek, the two announced their cocandidacy in a regular column in The Coll.egian, where they frequently highlighted some of the challenges they saw on campus and suggested what they could do as president of the University to meet them. "My columns were always the first step in problem-solving for me," he notes. "When I first came here, I hated the place. There was no one similar to me. If I had gone to a larger school, I kept thinking, I would have immediately found a group of people exactly like me and fallen in comfortably with them. "But then I realized that would have been considerably less of a learning experience and a pretty shallow four years. It's so small here that you can't blow somebody off because they disagree with you. You keep running into them. You have to deal with the problem. " ~ Identifying the problem is one of the things Olivieri thinks he has done best here. "I think, for
instance, my columns raised some issues that needed to be raised," he says. "I tried to consider things in a humorous way. Actual solutions are harder." Olivieri found some, though, during his college years. "My friends here ended up being much more diverse than I would ever have thought. I have some who are religious and some not at all; some Democrats, some Republicans; one who's going into the Marines. There's a lot to be said for going
students, someone they could talk to and be comfortable with. I wish I had done more, but I guess my life's service will be my teaching." Olivieri has hardly been idle. His honors at UR range from being named the Most Significant Contributor to the school during his sophomore year, to membership in seven honorary societies, including ODK and Golden Key. He also was one of the assistant producers of the University's latest admission video, and was chosen to give the student baccalaureate address at graduation. In music and theatre he's done everything: sound design and original music for four University Players productions, and sound operations for visiting artists in the Modlin Center for the Arts. He's acted, directed, produced and stage managed other productions, and composed music for the University Dancers. He cofounded Actual Bells Are Missing (a coed a cappella singing group) , sang in the Schola Canto rum and the University Choir, played in the University Orchestra and the UR Wind Ensemble, and directed the percussion ensemble. Now he's working professionally as resident composer of the Richmond Shakespeare Festival sponsored by Encore! Theatre Co. (and run by UR alumni) , and his original music will travel with one of the Shakespeare productions across Virginia this summer. He has, he says modestly, "run into a string of good luck and opportunities that most people don't get," including the chance to become a working professional in sound design. He leaves UR "with a math major, a music minor, and a license """"'"--"'....,.......;"""'"--'-.,...,_.....:... to teach in 37 states." More than .• " that, he leaves with an acceptance to j ~,,,graduate school at the Yale School : ,I: ,.,,,-ofDrama. ------ ~ . .. _________ ___..His sister will be coming in as a ~ t,QSef, SOLJiid first-year student this fall. Has she )..J..>t <les, • -r seen his admission video? "She glJer, peiCUSSl• O n\S \. doesn't need to," Olivieri says. "She's a lot like me. She'll be ve1y comfortable here. "
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inside the person and not just judging from what's obvious." Olivieri-a math major and music minor with a concentration in education-is himself a surprise, a good deal more serious-minded in person than his humorous column would indicate. "If I have a regret," he says, "it's that I didn't do more to take advantage of the all the chances for service here. One thing I did do and am proud of was to become a 'safe zone' for gay, bisexual and lesbian
C iary Mittell didn't -set out to graduate with four majors. "I took what I was interested in," she says, "and it turned out l was interested in a lot." Mittell graduated in May with majors in English, Spanish, philosophy and women's studies, and was recognized at Commencement as the Westhampton College recipient of the Clarence J. Gray Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership. She also was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and selected as the student speaker for the pre-graduation candlelight ceremony. Mary attended UR on a full scholarship and graduated with a 3.8 average. But the accomplishment she's most proud of is her work with WILL (Women Involved in Living and Learning), a four-year program of women's studies, cocurricular activities on gender issues, and interaction in a student organization, all designed to foster self-confidence and self-awareness in women. Mittell was WILL president her senior year and says
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administrators to tell them what I thought about things. " And when she wasn't calling, she wrote. "It was WILL that gave me the confidence to tackle issues headon," she says. Sometimes the efforts paid off and other times she was happy just to have planted a seed. One of her unsuccessful campaigns was a push for the University to provide a daycare program for its employees. "It's a glaring lack" in a place that wants to be a familyfriendly community, she says. "And it would be good for students to
have the opportunity to work with such a program, too. " Now Mittell is ready to tackle bigger problems in the world at large. With a college record of achievement, participation and leadership that would open corporate doors all over the country, Mary is focusing right now on making a difference. This summer she has accepted a position at a homeless shelter for undocumented immigrants in El Paso, Texas. Eventually she will become an RN and ultimately a midwife-career choices to which her WILL studies led her. Unlike so many of her classmates who felt pressured to line up a job, Mary is no longer in a hurry to get where she's going. "I'm pure potential," she says. "I'm leaving this University feeling that I can do anything." In addition to WILL, Mary 0
~::1~~i~;~~~~~1he;~~:~e;~~;, ;~er hesitation: the faculty. So many of them are just brilliant in the classroom. And I really appreciate the contact I had with them outside the classroom, too. When I think of people I will never forget here, half of them are faculty and staff. That's kind of remarkable, isn 't it?" As an example of outstanding faculty, Mittell mentions Dr. Patricia Patterson, coordinator of women's studies. "I never even had a class with her," Mary says, "but our paths crossed on a project, and she ended up being a mentor and a constant support. It's odd that this woman who never taught me has been such a great influence on me, but I'm not sure it's all that rare at Richmond. That's one of the nice things about this place."
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Wi1en Carolyn R. Martin began working at the Universitv. of Richmond in 1973, she 1. had no plans to be a "career woman." She \ was 25 and her job as secretary to the executive assistant to the president w~l'i just that: a job, a source of income. She didn ·t have a college degree and she hadn't really considered trying to get one, since she was, the traditional college age.
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"We often underestimate our capacity to learn and grow," says Martin, who has come full circle with her latest appointment at the University. She is the new executive assistant to the president, the very position for which she was a secretary 25 years ago. Not only has Martin , C'86, made a successful career for herself during the 23 years she has been at Richmond, she is the first female on the University's senior staff. And, after 10 years of taking classes while working full time, she has her college degree, having concluded early on that her future would be limited without one. ARichmond native, Martin says she didn 't develop a long-range plan for her life prior to going to work. She did, however, have a strong work ethic and a desire to do things well, thanks to her parents. "They instilled in me by their example that hard work was necessary just to maintain the status quo and that getting ahead required even more effort." Martin began working at the University shortly after the $50 million gift of the E. Claiborne Robins family, when the Robins' expectations of greatness for Richmond were taking hold. "Along with so many others at the University, I adopted Mr. Robins' vision that we were going to achieve great things," she remembers. When then-President Dr. E. Bruce Heilman asked Martin to join his office staff, she accepted the secretarial position, moving
up during the next 11 years to It was while she was working for become Dr. Heilman 's administraDr. Heilman that Martin earned both tive assistant. her associate's and bachelor's Working with Dr. Heilman is one degrees in applied studies from the of the highlights of Martin 's career University. In 1986 she left UR to become a financial planner but two at Richmond. She says his energy, years later she was asked to return enthusiasm, persistence and as director of optimism were key in University services, transforming "problems" into where she oversaw "Carolyn "opportunities for telecommunications, success," and she purchasing and event Martin knows credits him with scheduling for the having had a great campus. effect on her life. Louis M. how the "Dr. Heilman MoelchertJr. , vice chose good people to president of business University work with him and and planning, says never failed to Martin was asked to works." acknowledge how return because of her -Provost Zeddie Bowen important their efforts extraordinary were in moving the capacity to deal with University forward, " many different issues Martin says. at the same time and because of her "He never failed to celebrate the exceptional management skills. successes, yet he used those When the Presidential Debate moments as opportunities to set the came to the University in 1992, mark higher, both for himself and Martin was an integral part of the the University. I knew how steering team. Working day and important it was to do things right; night, she led the team that he taught me the importance of handled all of the telecommunicadoing the right things. " tions requests for the debate and Chancellor Heilman is quick to was responsible for the media credit Martin for her own center. "It was an awesome accomplishments. She developed experience to be a part of the very successful relationships in the debate and to see the University University community and beyond host that international event in a during her years in the president's world-class way," she says. office, he says. "She always assumed Most recently, as director of responsibility above and beyond the network and telecommunication call of duty. In my 40-year career, I services, Martin was responsible don't know that I've ever had for both administrative and student anyone work for me who has done a telephone services, network services better job than Carolyn Martin." and the computer operations center.
"Carolyn Martin knows how the University works," says Dr. Zeddie Bowen, vice president and provost. It was this, along with her knowledge of the president's office and the Board of Trustees, that made her the obvious choice for the position of executive assistant to the president, he says. "She is well known and highly regarded in the University community. " Martin succeeded Dr. John Roush, who left to become president of Centre College (see story, p. 2). In her first few months on the job she has helped make Dr. William Cooper's transition to the University a smooth one. She advises the new president on matters involving the institution 's various constituencies, represents him and the University in educational and civic associations, and serves as a liaison with the Board of Trustees. Martin says she feels a great sense of accomplishment and gratitude when she looks at how far she has come. "I've been able to take advantage of wonderful opportunities. It has made me incredibly resourceful. "And most importantly, the people I have had the privilege to work with at Richmond are proof that we achieve very little ourselves. It is when we work together that we truly succeed." Mary Fehin Gravely, W'88, is editorial assistantfor the University of
Richmond Magazine.
r: or1{ an.di stud...y For Carolyn Martin and others like her, a University of Richmond diploma doesn't come after four years of full-time study. Instead, it can be the result of perhaps a decade or more of studying year round-mostly at night, while full-time jobs dominate the days. Dozens of full-time employees at the University have taken advantage of the tuitionfree classes, turning that benefit into diplomas. For them, the University is a place to learn as well as a place to work. Among those learners:
Judy Wilkinson began
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taking undergraduate classes after coming to the University in 1977 as secretary to the vice president for development/university relations. She studied 15 years to earn her bachelor of applied studies degree. "I did it for my own growth and for the love of learning," she says. "And then I got completely hooked. " Now the administrative assistant to the president and coordinator of institutional research, Wilkinson wore her cap and gown again this spring to receive her master's degree in art history and religion.
of programs and operations at the University's Management Institute, joined the University's staff in 1987, knowing free education was a benefit. "One of my goals was to get my degree from UR," she remembers. With some credits in hand from classes she had taken years earlier at UR's University College, she needed just five years to complete her bachelor's degree. Today she is three courses away from a master's degree and says she will "continue to use this benefit and take every opportunity to be a continuous learner."
secretary in the religion department, earned her bachelor in applied studies degree after taking classes year round for 12 years. She found the learning process to be "a terrific challenge and very fulfilling. " While Fisk was working toward her degree, two of her children earned their own UR degrees.
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• at the George M. Modlin Center for the Arts For more information, please call (804) 289-8980 or see the Web site at www.arts.richmond.edu/modlinarts.
Nicholas Payton Quintet Young virtuoso jazz trumpeter Nicholas Payton , appearing as part of the University's semester-long focus on "The American Century: Opening Horizons" Wed., Sept. 2, 8 pm Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music Cosponsored by the UR Cultural Affairs Committee
Momix An Emmy Awardwinning company of dancer-illusionists Sat., Sept. 12, 8 pm Alice Jepson Theatre
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David N. Baker, musical director Jazz program by the orchestra-in-residence at the National Museum of American History in Washington,
D.C.
Shanghai Quartet witb Attdre-Micbe/ Schub, piano
Mon., Sept. 28, 8 pm Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts Sponsored by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation
University of Richmond quartet-inresidence joined by the renowned pianist Wed., Sept. 16, 8 pm Camp Concert Hall
New York Wind Soloists
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
A program entitled "The Roaring '20s Revisited" Mon., Oct. 5, 8 pm Camp Concert Hall
Chicago's premier dance company returning to the University with a diverse repertoire Mon., Oct. 19, 8 pm Alice Jepson Theatre
Chris Kilmartin in "Crimes Against Nature" A humorous look at the social pressures inherent in being masculine Tues., Oct. 6, 8 pm Alice Jepson Theatre Sponsored by the Richmond College dean's office
COncert
A concert of solo piano music Sun, Sept. 13, 3 pm Camp Concert Hall, Booker Hall of Music
David Niethamer, Marta Schworm Weldon and Nicholas Alton Lewis, clarinets; John Walter, piano A special concert of clarinet music Mon., Sept. 14, 8 pm Camp Concert Hall
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Family Weekend Concert Annual musical revue by the University Band, Choir, Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble and Schola Cantorum Fri., Oct. 2, 8 pm Camp Concert Hall
Faculty Jazz Combo A concert of standard and original compositions with guest artist, worldrenowned saxophonist Jim Snidero Thurs. , Oct. 15, 8 pm Camp Concert Hall
Homer's "Odyssey"
Shakespeare's comedy with a specially commissioned musical score Sat., Oct. 24, 8 pm Alice Jepson Theatre Cosponsored by the UR Cultural Affairs Committee
Aquila Theatre Company of Londo11 A classic complete with original live music, creative staging and spectacular movement Thurs., Oct. 22, 8 pm Alice Jepson Theatre
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Consuelo Kanaga:An American Photographer
Directed by Fred Cobell World premiere of Rand Steiger's Resonant Vertices for chamber ensemble and computer in the first of two programs presented in conjunction with the semester-long theme of the American Century Sun., Oct. 25, 3 pm Camp Concert Hall
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1998-99 Tucker-Boatwright Artists-in-Residence
Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors"
Lloyd's Prayer By Kevin Kling Whimsical tale about Bob , raised by raccoons, and Lloyd , a less-than-proficient con man, guest directed by Gary Hopper, VCU theatre professor Oct.1-3, 8pm Oct.4, 2pm Alice Jepson Theatre
Work of the documentarian of AfricanAmericans, organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art Aug. 21-Sept. 26
Art for the University: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Marsh Art Gallery Gifts to the gallery's permanent collection Aug. 21 to Sept. 26
David Headley: Seashells Sonata Four monumental paintings of seashells as human-scale architecture Aug. 21 to Dec. 12
Witness to Our Century:An Artistic Biography of Fritz Eichenberg Organized by Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Sept. 25 to Dec. 12 On back cover: Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976).
"Blue Moon, · n.d., color lithograph, 23 x 30 112 inches. Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, I. Webb Surratt Jr. Print Collection.
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The prestigious award recognizes outstanding contributions to historic preservation in South Carolina. Poston has been the director of preservation at the Historic Charleston Foundation since 1982. He has written a number of papers, guidebooks and articles and is the co-author of The Vernacular Architec-
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Now We Are Sixty
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Poston's 717-page book is a comprehensive guide to the architectural treasures of America's bestpreserved city: historic Charleston, S. C. It focuses on the official "Old and Historic District of Charleston;' dividing the city into nine geographic areas.For each of these nine sections Poston includes an introductory essay, maps giving an overview of important sites, and detailed descriptions and illustrations of individual structures. Ornamental ironwork, the "Charleston single house"and historic cemeteries - all signature features of the city - are included in this volume which has more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations. Hailed as the "bible of Charleston's architectural history;' Poston's book received the 1997 South Carolina Honor Award for Historic Preservations, given by the Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation.
Two Bytes Press, 1998 With retirees as its target audience,Now We Are Sixty is a collection of short humorous pieces and poems about aging,all written by Hoffecker. A newspaper and magazine writer for many years, Hoffecker draws upon her previously published columns as well as essays and poems she has written exclusively for the book. Included are witty essays about peoples' reactions to aging, the pleasures of getting older and all the things older people don't have to worry about. If you are still worrying about your lost youth, Hoffecker says, try being an adolescent again. A resident of Stamford, Conn. ,Hoffecker is a former English teacher and also is the author of the children's book, Betsy Bigmouth. She leads readings and book discussions at retirement homes and is involved with local theatre groups. •
best contemporary watercolorists. She is one of 120 artists The Art of Public selected from Speaking 4,000 SAJJID ZAHIR CHINOY, entrants for their outstandAR'96 ing ability to paint textures with watercolor. The book is McGraw Hill, 1998 one in a series of four on "AQuestion of Culture," specific watercolor techthe address given May 12, niques. 1996, by Chinoy at the Jackson has been University of Richmond painting full time for 15 Commencement, is reproduced in its ____ 7""&" __ _ years.Although she also Pum1c SPEAKING works with acrylics and entirety in paints portraits, her primary StephenE. medium is watercolor. For Lucas'text many years she has been on public competing in national speaking. shows and in the Virginia The address Watercolor Society, where is the first in the appendix of she has obtained artist's speeches for analysis and membership. discussion which also The winner of a "Best in includes speeches from Show"award in an internaMartin Luther King Jr., AIDS tional competition at the activist Mary Fisher, actor Fraser Gallery in GeorgeAlan Alda and former First town,Jackson will be doing a Lady Barbara Bush. solo exhibit at the gallery Lucas introduces Chinoy's this September and October. address by saying:"Seldom She also has been published does a student commencein Watercolor Magic ment address upstage the magazine and is regularly featured speaker - espefeatured at the University's cially when that speaker is a Arts Around the Lake. • Pulitzer Prize winner from Harvard University.Yet that is Hub City Christmas, exactly what happened Spartanburg Writers when Sajjid Zahir Chinoy Trim the Literary Tree spoke to his fellow graduates ... :' (fhe address was DR. N.E. LASSITER, R'63 reprinted in the Summer Holocene Press, 1997 1996 issue of the University Lassiter's story, "The of Richmond Magazine.) Christmas Saw,"is one of a A native of India,Chinoy collection of holiday stories attends Stanford University, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. written by Spartanburg in economics. • writers and edited by Betsy The Best of Watercolor: Teter and John Painting Textures Lane. It is a DIANE HICKMAN JACKSON, moving story ~-~·~·W'62 of how we often don't Rockport Publishers, 1997 understand that which we don't know. In it he tells the Jackson's still life true story of Sam,an old man watercolor,"Rhapsody;' has in Spartanburg who lived in been published in The Best a home filled with bats and ofWatercolor: Painting dogs, a man whose living Textures, a book of juried conditions and appearance watercolors from today's
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made him the laugh of the town. Sam offered to play music at the church Christmas gathering and stunned the congregation with the beautiful music he played on an old steel saw. The senior minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg,S.C. ,for 13 years, Lassiter has served four churches in South Carolina in his 25 years in the ministry. •
Players, the Men Who Made Las Vegas A.D. HOPKINS, R'65 University of Nevada Press, 1997 Hopkins contributed two chapters to this book of biographies ·f!)LAYERS about the LAS VEGAS men who shaped Las Vegas. Edited by Jack Sheehan, the book gives readers stories of the men whose ideas established this gambling mecca of the world. Hopkins wrote a biography about Benny Binion, who was the first to take million-dollar bets,giving players the chance to win "big time;' and who was the inventor of the World Series of Poker. He also wrote about Jay Sarno, the creator of Caesars and Circus Circus. An investigative reporter and historical writer, Hopkins is the special projects editor for the
Las Vegas ReviewJournal and has been a resident of Las Vegas since 1969. He began his career in the newspaper business more than 35 years ago as a copy boy at the Richmond
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FACULTY BOOKS Sixth Ezra: The Text and Origin
DR.THEODOREA. BERGREN, associate professor of religion Oxford University Press, 1998 Bergren 's text provides the first complete critical edition of 6 Ezra, which fo retells the terrible catastrophes that will ravage the earth and predicts that the only ones to be saved will be those who remain faithful during persecution. Sixth Ezra offers a detailed analysis of the text and addresses issues of social setting, provenance, date, religious affiliation and recensional history. A specialist in early Jewish and Christian apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings, Bergren is also the author of Fifth Ezra:The Text, Origin, and Early History and A Latin-Greek Index of the Vulgate New Testament.•
Southern Odyssey, Selected Writings by Sherwood Anderson
DR.WELFORD DUNAWAY TAYLOR, R'59 and the Bostwick Professor of English, and Charles E. Modlin , eds. The University of Georgia Press, 1998 This collection of the best of Sherwood Anderson's writings about the region where he spent the last years of his life provides the reader with Anderson's perceptive vision of the South. More than 40 selections of journalism and fiction explore the people,
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the problems and the splendor of the South during the first part of this century. More than a simple personal record of his years in the South,Southern Odyssey is a gallery of portraits which represent Anderson's prose at its best. Anderson, who lived from 1876-1 941, was the author of Winesburg, Ohio and Horses andMen. •
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The Viper on the Hearth
DR.TERRYLL. GIVENS, associate professor of English Oxford University Press, 1997 Subtitled Mormons, Myths, and the Construction ofHeresy, Givens' book examines the ways in which Mormons have been portrayed in popular culture.It is the first full-length study to look at representations of Mormonism in popular fiction. It has been called a "wonderfully thought-through look at the interrelationships between fiction, religion, and the culture of humor/hostility." Also the author of the children's book,Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves, Givens has published several journal articles on Mormon studies, aesthetics and literary criticism. •
Proudfoot
Kevin S. Proudfoot, AR'95, took top honors at the 22nd annual One Show,one of the country's most prestigious advertising competitions, held in New York City in May. The show is sponsored by the One Club, an international organization of more than 1,000 art directors and copywriters. Proudfoot and fellow Virginia Commonwealth University Adcenter student Matt Stein won the Gold Pencil, the show's top prize, in a student competition of more than 400 entries from students from around the world.The winning entry by Proudfoot and Stein promoted the Pastamatic pasta machine with scenes of leisurely dining and the slogan,"Make time. Make pasta." Proudfoot also is one of fewer than 100 students worldwide whose work was displayed at the fourth annual One Club Student Exhibition in New York in May and June. Since receiving his master's degree in communications from VCU in May, he and Stein have been creating and producing an NFL pro football campaign for ESPN through Weiden & Kennedy,an advertising agency in Portland, Maine.
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COMMUNITY * Louise Eubank Gray, W'28, was honored as the
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first Middlesex,Va. ,Citizen of the Year at the county's 325th anniversary celebration in May, in recognition of her nearly 40 years as an educator in Middlesex and King and Queen counties and for her extensive volunteer work in the community. She served as the first president of the board of the Middlesex County Museum, on the county's library board and on the Rappahannock Community College Educational Foundations board. Apoet and author,she also has been active in the Virginia Writers Club.Among the books she has written or co written are A Patchwork Quilt,Reflections, Windows on the Past and Historic Buildings ofMiddlesex County, 1660-1875. In 1981 Gray was the recipient of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association's DistinguishedAlumnaAward.
COMPUTER SCIENCE * Dr.John G. "Greg" Morrisett, R'89, an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell since 1995,has been awarded a research fellowship from the Alfred PSloan Foundation. He is one of only 100 scientists nationwide who received the fellowship, which is awarded to help "young scholars of outstanding promise" set up laboratories for their research. Since the fellowships were established in 1955,21 recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes. Morrisett's primary research interests are in the development and use of advanced programming languages, particularly in the use of high-level languages. He says the Sloan Fellowship will allow him to "explore language design and implementation issues for the next generation of computing and communication devices so that when we're confronted with problems such as security issues we'll have a better grasp on how to avoid some of the serious pitfalls."A resident oflthaca, N. Y. ,he received his Ph.D.from Carnegie-Mellon U. in 1995.
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Robert L. Burrus Jr. , R'55, is senior partner and chair of the executive committee at McGuire,Woods, Battle &Boothe.He is active in the legal profession, in the community and at the University. He began a career in corporate law after graduating from Duke University School of Law in 1958 and has been called a"corporate wizard"by Virginia Business magazine. He is a director of numerous corporations,including CSX Corp., Circuit City Foundation,Heilig-Meyers and S&K Famous Brands. Burrus' many charitable involvements include the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Richmond Children's Museum. At the University he recently concluded service as chair of the presidential search committee and has just begun a term as rector of the Board oITrustees. He also served as chair of the Board ofAssociates from 1984 to 1989.
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Richard Cullen, L'77, is a partner in the Richmond law firm ofMcGuire,Woods,Battle &Boothe. He was appointed in June 1997 by Gov. George Allen as Virginia's 39th attorney general to fill the vacancy left following the resignation ofJames S. Gilmore III, who left to campaign for governor. Cullen served until January 1998, then returned to McGuire,Woods. An active voice in state government, Cullen also was appointed to the Juvenile Criminal Commission, the Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission and as co-chair of the Governor's Commission on Parole Abolition and Sentencing Reform.At the national level, he served as special counsel to the Senate IranContra investigation in 1987 and in 1991 President George Bush appointed him US.Attorney for the Eastern District ofVirginia,a post he held until 1993.
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Dr. Claire Millhiser Rosenbaum, W'54, is a partner of and educational consultant forThe Complete Exhibitionists,a company that produces exhibits for business and organizations. She is a former special education teacher,guidance counselor and principal. Among her many professional and community accomplishments,Rosenbaum has worked as the bereavement care coordinator at St. Mary's Hospital,as registrar ofBethAhabah Museum and as director of theAirmobile project at the Science Museum of Virginia. She served as director of the University's WILL program in 1985 and as interim dean of Westhampton College in 1985-86. She is the author of five books, including the history of Westhampton College, A Gem ofa College. Amember of the University of Richmond's Board oITrustees, Rosenbaum also was the recipient of the Westhampton CollegeA!umnaeAssociation's DistinguishedA!umnaAward in 1990.
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Sanders Thornley "Bud" Schoolar III, B'65, is owner and president of Ditch Witch ofVirginia Inc. He has been recognized as a tireless supporter of the E. Claiborne Robins School ofBusiness for years, and in 1992 he was named the University's Volunteer of the Year. As an alumnus, Schoolar has been active in fundraising, alumni activities, advisory capacities and outreach. He has served the business school as president of its alumni association, chairman of its annual fund , as a member of the dean's advisory committee and as chair of the business partnership program. He is a member of the University's Board of Associates.
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Charles K. Trible, C'68 and L'71, is the manager of tax services for Financial Managers and Consultants LLP in Richmond.In 1972Trible became assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Virginia in the finance and tax group. From 1975 to 1984 he was auditor of public accounts for Virginia. He then joined Virginia Power,where he worked as assistant controller until 1996. An active volunteer in professional and civic organizations,Trible has been chair of tl1e tax policy committee of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of Richmond for more than 20 years and is active in Ginter Park Baptist Church.
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Sally Yates Wood, B'65, G'7Oand L'8O,isa retired attorney with the U.S. Department ofAgriculture. She was a teacher before entering law school in the late 1970s. At the University ofRicl1mond she has served as president of the Westhampton College Alumnae Association,as a class fund chair and as a member of the annual fund steering committee and her class reunion committee. Most recently Wood led the Westhampton College alumnae campaign for the Jepson Alumni Center. She is active in the community, including serving as a senior warden at Grace and HolyTrinity Episcopal Church in Richmond.
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Dr.John D. Sanford, R, of Wilson, N.C., received recognition as the alumnus of the year at the Hanover Military Academy Homecoming. Alice Evans Watson, W, lives in Westminster-Canterbury, a retirement community in Virginia Beach, Va.
Anna Massey Devilbiss, W, of Richmond, reported that her husband, Donald Devilbiss, R'26, died in April 1997.
Alton E. Bridger, R, of Suffolk, Va., celebrated his 93rd birthday on Jan. 19, 1998. He remains active in the First Baptist Church and teaches men in the 75-78 age group. He also sings in the senior adult choir.
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Louise Waller St. George, W, is recovering from a fractured hip and lives at London House in Portsmouth, Va. She hopes to return to her condo soon.
Lewis E. Chittum, R, of Gastonia, N.C., and his wife, Margaret, enjoy their retirement at Covenant Village. They planned to celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary in June.
31 Mary Tyler Prichard, W, of Black Mountain, N.C., in January began tutoring mothers at the Women's Correctional Institute. She also tutors a second grader.
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G. Winston Crenshaw Sr., R, of Kilmarnock, Va., lives in Indian Creek Estates. He and his wife, Evelyn, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Dec. 1, 1997. They have three greatgrandchildren, six grandchildren and three children.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary MARTIIA RIIS MOORE 5 l02 Park Ave. Richmond, VA 23226-1520
We congratulate the 1997 winner of our class scholarship, Miss Janine Miller of Quincy, Mass. Class members are being recognized for various reasons: Virginia Ingram Guest, of Kensington, Md. , a resident of the Rock Creek Hills area, has been written about in a community newsletter. In addition to raising three children, she taught school in the science field and has shared her time in support of Girl Scouts, the Presbyterian church, a recreation center and a preschool program. Dr. Maysville Owens Page received her medical degree in 1941. Her husband, Sidney, received his medical degree in 1938. They have three children and were noted as one of a group of dynamic doctor duos of MCV
history who remain dedicated to medicine and to each other. Known to her classmates as Jane and "Boo," they married after her second year of medical school. She enrolled in medical school in Boston to be with Sidney, who was completing his internship. Jane served as a practicing pediatrician, and at one time was the only physician on call at the Methodist Children's Home in Richmond. She and her husband even saw patients in their home at night. Jane also served on the Social Security Disability Board. Dr. Alice Tomer Schafer and her husband, Richard, are the parents of two and also have a twocareer household. Alice retired from Wellesley in 1980 and from Marymount U. in 1996. Richard retired from MIT, where he served as head of the department of mathematics. Alice received the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics on Jan. 8, 1998, at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in Baltimore. In her career as a mathematics educator she served as a role model to women. She worked to establish support groups for women and to eliminate barriers women face in the mathematics community. Her leadership extended to the People to People program, for which she lead three delegations to China. Our class is saddened by the loss of two classmates:
Dr. Mary Ellen Stephenson passed away just before Christmas 1997. We will remember her enthusiasm for teaching and her love of friends, church and school. She is survived by a sister, Ruth Stephenson Edwards of Camden, S.C. Caroline Shafer Essex passed away on Jan. 28, 1998. At Westhampton, Caroline was May Queen and she was a WAC with the rank of major. She had been ill for several years and lived the Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in Maryland.
Grace Elliott Olsen, W, of Vincennes, Ind., reported the birth of her great-grandson, Cameron Scott Kimmell, born Dec. 4, 1997, to her grandson Jeff and his wife, Melody. William T. "Bill" Robertson, R, was a member of the undefeated 1934-35 varsity basketball team and was starting quarterback on the 1934 football team. Both were incorrectly reported in his profile in the Spring 1998 issue. The
University ofRichmondMagazine regrets the error.
The Rev. George Rumney, R, of Danville, Va., received the LovingHorne Award from UR alumni and friends on Nov. 12, 1997.
Eileen Lloyd Mader, W, of Rockville, Md., received the lifetime award for her volunteer work in the arts from the City of Rockville. Last September, she was one of250 people from 42 countries to attend a congress on art and communication at Keble College in Oxford, England. Virginia Bugg "Buggie" Peek, W, of Ocala, Fla., reported that her oldest son, Eugene, was inducted into the U. of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame. Her youngest son, Albert, developed the Country Club of Ocala and is developing Lake Diamond Country Club there. Her oldest grandchild, Maegen, is a student at the U. of Florida, where she was inducted into the Golden Key National Honor Society and received a scholarship as top junior member.
From the Westhampton Class Secretaries CHARLOTTE ANN DICKINSON MOORE 4990 Sentinel Drive #205 Bethesda, MD 20816
FRANCES DAVENPORT REID 2214 Stuart Ave. Richmond, VA 23220
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Helen Smith Moss continues to teach weekly classes in stretching and toning to women of all ages in Richmond. Her son, Robert, is vice president of his engineering consulting firm. Her daughter, Kitty, and her husband joined the parents of two other young women to give a
large debutante party for their daughter, Crandall. InJanuary,Jane Frances Davenport Reid was the guest speaker at a chapel service at the Hermitage at Cedarfield, a retirement community in Richmond. Saddye Sykes Williams was one of the participants, and she and Jane visited afterward. Jane became a member emeritus of the Annabella R. Jenkins Foundation, having served both its predecessor, the Retreat Hospital, and the foundation for more than 40 years. She devotes a good deal of time to her autobiography, which she is writing for her granddaughters. She also continues giving tours at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and contributes articles to the Fanfare, a small newspaper distributed in Richmond's Fan District. Charlotte Ann Dickinson Moore sent the following report from the Washington area: At the annual scholarship selection meeting, Maude Smith Jurgens, Dell Williams Smith, Margaret Brinson Reed, Doris Hargrove Kibler and Margaret Ligon Bernhart selected biology major Jennifer Neal, AW'98 and the daughter of a '57 Westhampton graduate, as our scholarship recipient. Margaret Ligon Bernhart reported that Libby Johnson Alvis lives at Virginia House in Arlington, Va. Margaret and her husband, Wesley, have enjoyed vacations visiting children and friends in North Carolina and Vero Beach, Fla. She and Charlotte Dickinson Moore recalled meeting by chance, along with Wes and Charlotte's son Jamey, at the Kennedy Center. The Bernharts' granddaughter, Margaret Elizabeth, enters UNCChapel Hill this fall. Charlotte visited her daughter Susan and family in Visalia, Calil., in June 1997 to see her UC-Berkeley granddaughter, Johanna, graduate from high school. In July 1997, Charlotte and a friend enjoyed a two-week RhineDanube cruise from Vienna to Amsterdam. Charlotte reported that she received a card from a prestigious Washington-area real estate firm stating, "You've got the tops in Real Estate know-how with Bella Jacobs," our own Bella Hertzberg Jacobs. Bella and Charlotte had lunch in the spring and discussed Bella's daughters in Alaska and Florida, as well as real estate.
Dr. Earl Fox, R, of Arlington, Va., serves as senior medical officer in the U.S. Coast Guard and as the senior officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. At present, he is the "last combat veteran of World War II who is still on active duty." He and his wife, Reba, have three sons, all married, and seven grandchildren. Mary Alice Smith TIiiotson, W, of Williamsburg, Va., continues to tutor mathematics and helps 18 students. She serves as treasurer of the WCAA:s Middle Peninsula Club, now known as the Three Rivers Club. She enjoys seven grandchildren ranging in age from a 2-yearold to a college graduate.
and gardening. His son David works in breast-cancer research in California, and his son Bill is a financial analyst in Memphis. His daughter, Andrea, works as a division head with Lockheed Martin in Oak Ridge.
Dr. Earl Fox, R'41, is the last combat veteran of World War II who is still on active duty. From the Westhampton Class Secretary MARY WARNER STEPHENSON
Helen Moon Cashwell, W, of Raleigh, N.C., wrote that she never dreamed as a student that her young cousin, Bruce Heilman, would someday become the president and eventually chancellor of UR. She is indeed proud of him and his wife, Betty.
Barbara Fuller Cox, W, of Newport News, Va., stays busy with the Lifelong Learning Society at Christopher Newport College. She also enjoys St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and aerobics classes. She took a trip to Ireland last summer with Mildred Cox Goode, W' 44, and her husband, Skee Goode, R'42. She also visited her children and grandchildren in Atlanta and Oakland, Calif. Helen Herrink Fix, W, of Cincinnati, and her husband, Jack, spent February 1997 in Hawaii. Her sister, Charlotte Herrink Sayre, W'51, joined them. In April, they attended the 50th reunion gathering of PT boat officers and in June, they visited their daughters in Phoenix and the Mojave Desert.
W.H. Lockey Jr., R, of Winter Park, Fla., retired as executive director of the Florida Theatre Conference on Jan. 1, 1998. The theatre organization gave him a lifetime career award. In December, he played Dr. Lyman, the old professor, in Theatre Winter Haven's "Bus Stop." Thomas Eugene Zava, R, of Oak Ridge, Tenn., retired from Union Carbide in October 1984 after 40 years of service. He enjoys traveling
140 Lisa Lane Oldsmar, FL 34677 Mimi Hill Erb and Dave attended three Elderhostels in 1997: one in Arizona's high desert country; one in Brunswick, Ga.; and one at the J.C. Campbell Folk School at Brasstown, N.C. In June, they attended the destroyer USS Rowe reunion in Providence, R.I., and in September, they hosted the USS Laws reunion in Roanoke, Va. Mimi's oldest grandson attends medical school in Davis, Calil. They attended his wedding in July. In December, she and Dave went to Munich and Vienna, where Dave sang with the Davidson College Presbyterian Church choir. It's hard to see when, but Mimi remains active teaching English to refugees. Dot Monroe Hill and Stonie spent a white Christmas with their daughter and her family in Boston. She also sent along a lot of' 44 news: Evermond Hardee Daniel underwent heart surgery in December and came through it fine. Harriett "Heppy" Patterson Ellis and Pierce went to Calgary to the wedding of their oldest grandson. Ruth Van Ness Brust took two Elderhostel trips in 1997 - one to Sicily and one to Vancouver. Rita Muldowney Copley is another admiring grandmother. She has two grandsons, ages 12 and 16. Now that she has recovered from back surgery, no one is surprised to hear that Anne McElroy Mackenzie has over-extended herself again with family and business entertaining and taking extra training as a docent at the art museum.
Norma Sanders Granley and Ed spent their Christmas in Atlanta with daughter Sara, her husband and three grandchildren. Phyllis "Fifi" Smethurst spent a wet Florida holiday at home on Longboat Key. At times she was unable to get off the island because of flooding. My Christmas was also an El Nino one, but was very special as all of our grandchildren and their parents from Calilornia and Nevada were here for a week Demie Browne Blair reminds us all that by the time you read this, it will be less than a year until our 55th reunion!
Kathryn Mumma Atkinson, W, of Villanova, Pa., and her husband, Jack, enjoyed a trip to Hawaii. She is a tour guide at Historic Waynesborough. Dr. Ann Clark Howe, W, of Raleigh, N.C., and her husband celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in August 1997. In October, she hiked the mountain at Machu Picchu, Peru. Frank W. Mann Jr. , R, of Lancaster, Va., enjoyed a trip to Los Angeles for his daughter Aimee's wedding to Michael Penn.
some foot ligaments, preventing any skiing last winter. Bitsy's daughter Julia and a colleague received approval from the FDA to test a vaccine they developed against a virus with multiple "lethal personalities," such as HIV. Let us hope! Mary Campbell Paulson and Jackson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in September 1997 by revisiting Bermuda. Fifty years ago it was bicycles, but this time it was taxis! Ann Seay Jackson and J.B. spent a week in November with their son Julian in the Christmasdecorated city of New York. They spent Christmas with their son Will in Seattle. Their 50th is this August. Lottie Blanton Applewhite spent September through January mostly working in Europe. She attended a conference of editors of biomedical journals in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and also went to Budapest, Hungary, Switzerland and Denmark, where she visited the family with whom she had spent Christmas 50 years ago. She also went to Indianapolis to conduct another workshop. She planned to stay home this summer. Yournext deadline is Sept. 15, 1998. Please write, even if it's past the deadline. I can use it and besides, I enjoy hearing from you.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary RUTH HILLER)OHNSON
P.O. Box 356 Amherst, VA 24521
From the Westhampton Class Secretary
We were saddened to learn of the deaths of Wanda Walton Pace's husband, Warren, who died in November 1997; and of Doris Mills Harrell's mother, who died in September 1997. Our deepest sympathies to Wanda and Doris. On a happier note, Doris went to northern Italy in October - a trip of a lifetime. We all know how much skiing means to Alma "Bitsy" Rosenbaum Hurwitz, so we were sorry to learn that she pulled
ALTA AYERS BOWER 105 46th St. Virginia Beach, VA 23451
In May, "Ding" Lambeth Shotwell and Ralph concluded their year-long 50th wedding anniversary celebration with a luncheon/dance at a Chicago-area big band ballroom. They canceled a trip to Indonesia because ofRalph's hospitalization and recovery from pericarditis, but they were able to travel to Turkey in November. Ding has completely retired from her
FamilyWeekend ........... Oct. 2-r'4 riends of the Boatwright Libr?fY book sale ........ Oct. 2-4 '.Arts Around the Lake ........ Oct. 4
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university teaching post and can devote more lime to her pone,y, To:L,tmasler Club duties, other speaki ng engagements and counseling. Joyce Eubank Todd and Howe have a newgranddaughter, Nell Eubank Cal kens, born May l 0, 1997. Congratulations! Frances Ann Beale Goode en joyed her family's visit al Christmas, which included six grandchildren. During the holidays, she, Bev Ryland andJulia Shelton Jacobs enjoyed a matinee performance al the recently relocated Barksdale Theatre in Richmond. Also, classmates Barbara Ritchie Branch, Lelia Phillips Toone and Ding Lambeth Shotwell enjoyed a Richmond visit. Both Louise Richardson Phipps and Jackie Hodges Walker enjoyed family at Christmas. In August, Virginia "Jinks" Booth Grabbe came east from California lo join her sister Frances for a family reunion in Reidville, Va. Her three sons, with whom she enjoys family get-logethers, live in Birmingham, Ala. ; Sacramento, Calif. ; and Toronto. The past four years have been difficult ones for Cora Lynn Chaffee Goldsborough. She had major surge,y each year. She is recovering but still is unable Lo drive. Her children, Emmyand Harry, both of whom live in California, have been spending time with her. Isabelle Gunnels Snyder was in Charlollesville in May and :tlso visited Cora Lynn. Mary Frances Bethel Wood and Buddy went to Alaska. Allen and I went the opposite direction to the West Indies. If you'd like to go to these islands, we will share our experiences with you.
'47 John L. Clark, R, of Richmond, retired last year but continues to serve on the board of John II. Frischkorn Jr. Inc. lie was formerly president an d CEO of the company. Dr. Stanley N. Cohen, R, of Philadelphia, has retired from the clinic:tl practice of endocrinology but continues teaching at Thomas Jefferson U. Hospital. He also studies oil painting at the U. of Pennsylvania. Marylou Massie Cumby, W, of Petersburg, Va. , enjoyed a trip to Israel and a tour of the Holy Land in Februa,y l 997. She also spent a week at Disn ey World with Guy Jr., Ellen and her grandchildren, Kristina, 7, and Guy 111 , 4. Kimiko Fujimoto Durluun , W, of St. Louis, and her husband enjoyed the Missouri-Nagano Sister State Exchange trip in June 1997.
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Delegates on the trip gave a surprise partyfor the Durhams for their 50th wedding anniversa,y. Their children also gave them a surprise party in August, and his mother, Ma,y Durham, 97, auended.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary MIMI DAFFRON HORIGAN 4640 Stuart Ave. Richmond , VA 23226 This leuer is fiUed with news received during the winter holiday season. Carolyn Storm Pattie enjoys her retirement immensely. She retired eight years ago and loves visits from her two children, Page and Allen. She usuallyspends summer vacations with Page and her family who live in Missouri. They spent last year's vacation al Myrtle Beach (our favorite place). "Howie" Bingham Kiser's summer 1997 was a busy one. Her grandson David had reconstructive surge,y on his knee in August. Howie, Lisa and David managed a trip to Alabama, visiting family and taking side trips. Ollie Menefee Stirling had most of her family home for the holidays. Her granddaughter Caraline is a student at the U. of Notre Dame. Betty O'Brien Yeats and Joe take the most marvelous trips. Besides manyi ng off their son Will in April l 997 and coming to our reunion , they worked in trips to Washington, D.C. ,Jordan and Israel. They topped off last summer visiting England, Scotland and Wales. Susie Guard Woody sent me a letter from Betsy Slate Riley. Betsy is pretty much confined to her home because of her allergies. She and Frank had their "big celebration" on June 28, 1997, with a lun cheon that included children, grandchildren and extended family. Frank continues to teach Sunday school and to preach. In closing, I would like to extend the sympathyof our class lo Martha Henley Berkie on the loss of her mother in 1997. Please let me hear from you. It has been a year since our 50th and I mi ss hearing from you.
Anne Foster Anderson, W, of Spartanburg, S.C., retired from substitute teaching and enjoys spending more time with her four grandsons in Charleston , S.C. She teaches adult Sunday school and is active in other church programs. Joyce Roberson Goforth, W, of Bowling Green , Va., has been su bstitute teaching at a middle school. Her husband had a triple bypass in September 1997.
Bobby TI1aJman, R, of Midlothian , Va. , was inducted into the Hampden-SydneyAthletic Hall of Fame and the VMl Athletic Hall of Fame in November 1997, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in Februa,y 1997. He was honored for his manysuccessful years as a footbaU coach. He coached for two high schools, two colleges and two universities.
'49.. Mary Copeland Hogue, W, of Richmond, moved to Heritage Oaks Retirement Center and enjoys the facilities and new friends. John G. Perkins, R, of Crozier, Va., retired after 35 years of leaching music in Henrico, Goochland, Powhatan and the Richmond public schools. He was honored as the music director emeritus 1997 of the Richmond Concert Band. Ben G. Triplett, B, ofBayonel Point, Fla., enjoyed a 35-day cruise from Athens, Greece, lo Capetown, South Africa.
Dr. Virginia L. Brinson, W, of Punta Gorda, Fla., enjoys a cruise tour eve,y year. Last year, she and a friend went lo Rome, the Greek Isles, Turkey, Bulgaria and the Ukraine. She and her sister and nephew traveled to Hawaii , California, Seallle, Vancouver and Toronto. Louis A. Crescioli, B, of Springfield, Va., and his wife, Marjorie, went to California in December to auend their son Christopher's graduation from C,tl Tech. Dr. Darrell K. Gilliam, R, of Chesterfield, Va. , retired from medical practice on Dec. 31 , l 996. Dr. James R. Sease, R, is a widower in Harrisonburg, Va. He single-handedly took
his sailboat down the lntracoastal Waterway lo Florida and then took ski trips lo Snowmass and Lake Tahoe.
From the Westhampton Class Secreta1J1 ELIZABETH GIVENS PIERCE 3131-D Stony Point Road Richmond, VA 23235 Our group leaders have responded well with news that has been gathered from Christmas cards. I do appreciate their responses. Family holiday celebrations were special news this past winter: just before Thanksgiving,Jean Tinsley Martin and Roy were given a lovely party by their children to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversaiy. Some of our class members who attended were Margaret Alexander Anderson, Doris Balderson Burbank, Vivian Betts Lewis, Barbara Coleman Augustine,Joanne Waring Karppi, Barbara White Balderson and Clarice Ryland Price. Libby Givens Pierce and her husband arranged a holiday cocktail party and dinner al Willow Oaks Country Club for some members of our class. Family gatherings were very special. Jane Edmonds Barnett had her whole family, which includes seven grandchildren, during the holidays in Texas. ln Florida,Jean Bishop Porter and Joe went to Fort Lauderd:tle from their winter home at Fort Myers to visit their son,Joe, and his family. Thanksgiving was special for Joanne Waring Karppi and Bill, who visited Joanne's relatives near Atlanta. Ahighlight of the holidayseason for us was having all the Pierce family together on Dec. 27. What a thrill it was to tour the new Jepson Alumni Center on Oct. l , 1997, which was just before Homecoming. This gracious home with its beautiful interior decorations is a place you will want to see when you return for our 50th reunion in two years. Please begin lo make your plans. Also, you will want to look at the brick terrace, which includes a brick given by our class. Thanks go lo
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Clarice Ryland Price, who suggested this donation. Our class members slay busy with trips. Lou Covington Randall and Harry celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary with a trip to the Canadian Rockies. Lou also took a trip in November with her daughter to Virginia and the North Carolina Outer Banks. Ellen Largent Perlman and Al went on an Elderhoslel to France and England. Julie Wann Pittman and Al enjoyed a trip to Russia last September. Lucia B. McClintock went lo Nova Scotia. Hilda Moore Hankins and "Deck" went Lo Sebring, Fla., with some other couples i11Janua1y. Charlotte Westervelt Bispham and her husband were in Palm Beach in March. Peggy Wells Meador and Bob enjoyed a trip lo upstate New York in October. They also visited Gettysburg and the Amish country. Last spring, they enjoyed a trip to their daughter's family's farm in Michigan. Nell Ford Brill went last October with the Sweet Adelines lo S:tll Lake City for international competition. Bernadine Arey Clarke and John went to Australia and New Zealand in addition to taking trips to Virginia from their home in the slate of Washington. Bernie and John enjoyed dinner with Barbara White Balderson and Doris Balderson Burbank while they were in Virginia. Marianne Rounds Holloway and her husband, Dick, went to Las Vegas for the National Funentl Directors meeting and then fl ew to Phoenix. Hilda Moore Hankins auended a luncheon at the home ofJane Lawson Willis, W'51 , and saw Maty Lee Moore Vinson, W'S 1. In January, four of us met al the Delray Beach Country Club for lunch: Ellen Largent Perlman, Carol Siegel Taub, Lenore Greenberg Siegel and Libby Givens Pierce. ll was great fun chatting, plus making plans Lo return for our 50th in two years. Carol told us that Carol Sidlovsky Schepp and Archie have a large older home in Elberon, N.]., and they hope to go lo Florida this year. Joanne Waring Karppi and Barbara Coleman Augustine and their husbands welcomed Jean Tinsley Martin and Roy from Richmond for a formal dinner dance after a day of sightseeing at the Newseum, a news museum in Roslyn, Va. Marty Lowry Greene and Jack spent last summer at their place on Lake Ontario in upstate New York. It is good lo hear that.Jack is improving after his stroke in Februa,y 1997.
Mary Sue Mock Milton and Cecil celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary in December. Their daughter Julie graduated from UNC and is in massage therapy school in Atlanta. Daughter Sue works for First Union Bank and son Tom and his family are renovating an older home. Penny Wilks Fitzgerald and Cecil visited Joyce Betts Pierce and Jack, who stay more at their home in Richmond than in Charlottesville, Va. Ann Dorsey James visited Claire Noren Griffin in October. Claire's husband is retired, but she still works part time for the doctor for whom she has worked for 25 years. Nancy Chapin Phillips is a docent at a Tulsa, Okla., museum. Her husband had heart surgery in October and is doing great. How nice it was to receive e-mail from Libby Rowse Wilson in February. Her husband feels fine and is undergoing therapy. They enjoyed a visit from their son, Gary.
Faye Kilpatrick Gillespie, W'53, and her husband returned to China to teach English to teachers in July and August 1997. Ruth Morrissey Bain retired from lab work at U.Va., and thoroughly enjoys her grandchildren. The most recent one, Maurice Burton, is the son ofRuth 's youngest daughter. Barbara White Balderson stays busy as a volunteer teacher of English as a second language. There are 12 nationalities represented in her church program, and it is continually growing. Helen Lampathakis Kostyal spent several days with Barbara in January when Dick had a knee replacement. Wilda Whitman Oakley is the current regent of her DAR chapter of Norfolk, Va., which sponsored the naturalization program for immigrants. Wilda and her husband, Bud, spent Christmas in Florida with their son Brett. Margaret Alexander Anderson joinedJoyce Betts Pierce for the Westhampton College Fund Day at the Jepson Alumni Center in January. Special recognition goes to Lee Reeves Childress, who serves as the 1998 Annual Fund Chairman. Please send in your Class of '50 alumni fund contribution. Margaret does a fantastic job in keeping up with our
classmates, but she cannot locate Louise Lynham Gravitt (whose last address was in Columbia, S.C.). Please send us her address and any news about her. Stella Dalton Wallner and Jon have a new address in Advance, N.C. They live in a nice retirement complex near Winston-Salem. Good news for Lenore Greenberg Siegel and George. Their daughter Ellen and her husband, Mark, have a son, Eric Leif Silverberg. He was born in January. He is the Siegels' fourth grandchild. Louise Cheatham Chandler and her husband, Bruce, went to the south of France with a group of friends from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va. Marianne Beck Duty and her family celebrated New Year's week with a Caribbean cruise. Also, she has been very busy with her 50th reunion from Thomas Jefferson High School in Richmond. Our deepest sympathy goes to "B" Covington O'Flaherty, whose husband, Billy, passed away on Jan. 9, 1998. "B" had done such a diligent job in caring for Billy during his long illness.
James S. Howell, B, of Charlotte, N.C., is chairman of the board of Evergreen Mutual Funds. He is proud of his grandson who entered the U.S. Naval Academy this year. Shirley McKim Lovings, W, of Indialantic, Fla. , and her husband, Wade, purchased their third white boxer, "Lady Fergus," in Scotland and enjoyed a trip north to John O'Groats. Irene Blackburn Miller, W, married George Cap us Miller Jr., of Crescent City, Fla. , onJuly 12, 1997. She has five children and he has six children. Between the two of them "they have enjoyed a combined 95 years of happy marriage." In August 1997, they drove across the United States to Seattle and Vancouver and took a train to Banff. In September 1997, they took a six-week trip around the world by private jet. They live six months of the year in Florida and six months in Midlothian, Va. Robert B. Miller, R, of Midlothian, Va., retired three years ago after 42 years in real estate appraising and commercial loan financing. He completed building a garden house. He also continues his activities with scouting, where he has served 30 years, the last 19 on the board of Robert E. Lee Council. He has one grandchild, Emma, who was born in May 1997.
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Dr. Fletcher B. Owen Jr., R, of Highland Springs, Va. , retired after 30 years at A.H. Robins Co. where he was assistant vice president, medical services. Dr. Anne Plunkett Rosser, W, of Richmond, is retired and lives at Lakewood Manor. Her son Stephen Rosser, R'76, was featured with his singing group, Lionheart, during the Celebrity Series at the Modlin Center on Feb. 2, 1998. Robert S. Stephens, B, of Fredericksburg, Va. , enjoyed his Spotsylvania High School reunion last September. Pictures of the school's 1945-46 baseball team appeared in the local paper, the Free-Lance Star, on Nov. 1, 1997. Robert later played with the Cleveland Indians for six years.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary GINA HERRINK COPPOCK 9013 West St. Manassas, VA 20110-5023 Barbara McGehee Cooke has had a busy year traveling. She's been to Florida, the Bahamas, Minneapolis and Madison, Wis., visiting some of her children and four grandchildren. She also went to England. Mary Lee Moore Vinson traveled to Atlanta for a week in February to visit a friend. She also visitedJane Lawson Willis in South Boston. Maryglyn Cooper McGraw and Wally spent two weeks in the rain forests of Costa Rica last November. In January, they were in Rome for one week, and they made a day's side trip to Florence. Another winter traveler was Lea Thompson Osburn. In January, she took a Panama Canal cruise that also made stops in Acapulco and San Juan, Puerto Rico. In February, she went to Mobile, Ala. , to visit her daughter and grandchildren. Betsy Bethune Langhorne keeps busy with her job and was sent to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for a tristate tourism conference.
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Jean Crews Derry, W, o[Jupiter, Fla., visited her daughter Jan in Wtirtzburg, Germany, last September. She also enjoyed a Panan1a Canal cruise in November. Dr. Page Hudson, R, of Farmville, N.C., has accepted a one-year post as director, forensic monitoring program, for Physicians for Human Rights. He served several weeks in 1996 and 1997 as a consultant in Bosnia. Sam W. Parker, B, of Charlottesville, Va., works as a sales consultant for Southwestern Petroleum Corp. based in Fort Worth, Texas. The Hon.James B. Wilkinson, L, was named secretary of the Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center at Richmond Inc. for 1998. Sarah Barlow Wright, W, of Smithfield, Va. , enjoyed two weeks in Florida last January with Kathleene Cooke O'Bier, W, where they took classes at the senior center and toured the sights. She also spent two weeks in England at a U.Va./Oxford seminar, "Jefferson in England." Her first grandchild, Clayton Wright Moore, was born on Oct. 23, 1997, to her daughter Janet and her husband, Butch.
Sidney E. Brown, R, of Brodnax, Va., sold Agrimetrics Associates, a 33-year-old consulting firm that advised meat and poultry industries. He is developing AgriMicrobe Sales, which has patents pending on bioremediation filters. Faye Kilpatrick Gillespie, W, of Gastonia, N.C., and her husband, Arthur, returned to China to teach English to teachers. They lived and taught at the Fujian Education Institute in July and August 1997.
Marietta Carr Glascock, W, of Virginia Beach, Va. , reported that her daughter Mary Todd and her family live in Virginia Beach. Her grandson, Henri, is a second grader. Her daughter Kinney lives in New York with her husband. Her daughter Leslie died in March 1996. Ed Landi, B, of Mechanicsville, Va., joined Pioneer Realty as a sales agent/associate. He was formerly withJ&R Realty. Janet Francis Midgett, W, works at Acorn Advertising Specialties Co. in Greensboro, N.C. Ann Thomas Moore, W, after living in Los Angeles for IO years, plans to move back to New York City. She also will be visiting her daughter in Milan, Italy, for three weeks. Clyde D. Nuckols, R, of Louisa, Va., retired as a Methodist pastor on July 1, 1997 Dr. Elizabeth Williams Roberson, W, of Springfield, Ill., planned to retire on June 16, 1998, and hopes to travel to be with her three children and seven grandchildren in California, Virginia and Ohio.
The Rev. Dr. Malcolm G. "Mac" Shotwell, R, of Springfield, Ill., retired on June 1, 1997, after 40 years in the ministry. His pastorates included three American Baptist churches in New York and Illinois. He served as area minister in Pennsylvania and Delaware and for the past seven years as regional executive minister for churches in Illinois and Missouri. He received a doctorate of ministry from Eastern Baptist Seminary in Philadelphia and a doctorate of divinity from Judson College, where he serves as chairman of the board of trustees. He and his ,vife, Laverne, live in Springfield, Ill. The Hon. William F. Thomas Jr., B, of Pulaski, Va., retired as judge of the Juvenile Domestic Relations Court on Jan. 1, 1996.
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From the Westhampton Class Secretary NANCY GRAHAM HARRELL
410 September Drive Richmond, VA 23229 On Dec. 10 (Human Rights Day) , Billie Bryan received an award of recognition for human rights efforts that the women 's organization at the National Institutes of Health has pursued. She was honored along with other recipients at a luncheon. We extend our deepest sympathy to both Ann Hanbury Callis and Marcella Hammock Bullock. BobCallisdiedonJan.10.John Bullock died on Feb. I. Mary Lu Gilbert Dorsey and John returned from their boat trip on the Intracoastal Waterway in the spring of 1997. Ann Powell Oast and Townsend joined them for part of the voyage. Mary Lu and John have a sixth grandchild,Jack, who was born in September to daughter Nell and her husband. Edith Jackson Jones was campaign manager for a Greensboro City Council candidate, who won with 80 percent of the vote. Barbara Cronin Lovell was elected to UR's Athletic Hall ofFame in January. She joins classmates Laura Mapp and Nancy Lay who are already "in the hall. " What an amazing trio, and all from our very small class! Betty Rosenberger Allen's grandson , Graham Allen Stewart was born on Sept. 25 to daughte;¡ Susan and her husband, Doug. Nancy Lay and Barbara Cronin Lovell made a sailing trip to the British Virgin Islands in August. Nancy, Barbara Bull Tull and Mary Jane Miller visited with Barbara Lovell in Maine. Barbara in turn visited Nancy in Knoxville, Tenn. , in November to help her celebrate her enrollment in Medicare. Cos Washburn Barnes, Han)' and all of their family held a reunion in Hawaii in January. They connected with their daughter Sue and her family who are now stationed in Korea.
'55 Paul L. Dudrak, R, of Waxhaw, N.C. , retired as a major from the U.S. Air Force in 1975. He has worked 21 years as aviation parts manager forJAARS Inc., supporting Wycliffe Bible Translators in their worldwide missionat)' work. Rudi Gouldin Kelley, W, works at Kelley Re:~ty Co. in Richmond. She has three sons: Dan , Steve and Eric.
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John Paul Berry, R, of Chesapeake, Va., spent 36 years as an electrical engineer at Johns Hopkins U. He and his wife, Billie, have five children and an international marketing business. They also work to develop the vision of New Life Christian Fellowship. Walter A. Harrow Jr., R, of Deltaville, Va. , continues with Cheasapeake Bay Fishing, a charter boat service. He has been a trustee of UR since 1996. Dr. Phillip H. Kirkpatrick, R, retired from Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Va. He and his wife of 43 years, Esther, have one grandchild, Taylor Elizabeth. He serves as the founding director and charter chairman of the board of the Commu11ity Bank in Petersburg, Va. He also serves as charter director of Cornerstone Realty Investment Trust. Marilyn Sorce Klumpp, W, of Alexandria, Va., retired on June 30, 1997, after 40 years in public education. She enjoys her two grandchildren, volunteer activities, traveling with her husband and staying at their vacation home in Wintergreen, Va.
Robert E. Kelly, R'59, has been the project manager for the building of a textile plant in India. Before that, he managed renovation of a plant in Mexico. From the Westhampton Class Secretaries ANNE STUART HARTZ GARNE1T 3848 Brook Road Richmond, VA 23227 EDNA WAGSTAFF WARNCKE 2956 Hathaway Road #401 Richmond, VA 23225 Congratulations to Charlotte Hart Simpson and her husband Bill who became first-time gran,dpa;. ents on Dec. 29, 1997. Their older daughter, Catherine, and her husband, Ross Nase, are the proud parents of Marian Hart Nase, named for her great-grandmother, Charlotte's mother. Charlotte and Bill's younger daughter, Helen, is a
customer representative at Capital One in Richmond while she finishes her degree in psychology and business administration from VCU. In July 1997, Charlotte and her family traveled to Lake Lure, N.C., for Bill's family reunion. Thanks for cards, notes, pictures and letters received at Christmas from Doris Huffman Moore, Ann Morris Earl, Edith Borjes Greer, Helen Melton Lukhard, Edna Wagstaff Warncke, Lillian Stephenson Stroud, Janet Knobe(Jones, Mary Moore Mullin Mowery, Ellice Simmonds Smart, Charlotte Hart Simpson, and George and Dottie Snader. George was the husband of our dear deceased classmate, Margie Kantner Snader. Doris Huffman Moore and Bill love being back home in Richmond. Lillian Stephenson Stroud sent a picture of their grandchildren: James, 2 1/2; Ellee, 2; and Christian, 11/2. Lillian mentioned Anne Pope Kitchen, who was to be in Richmond for the 1998 General Assembly, as she is legislative assistant to her local delegate. Edith Borjes Greer's daughter Cindy's husband retired from the Marine Corps in September 1997, and they have settled in.Jacksonville, N.C., with their three children: Matthew, 9; and twins, Katie and Andrew, 6. Edith and her husband, Harold, enjoyed Thanksgiving visits of Cindy's family and their son David. How good it is to have Ann Morris Earl back on our class list. David, the youngest of her three sons, married Wendy Darden on Feb. 21. Ann suggested that we try to locate others, like herself, who started with us but left before graduation. If you know the whereabouts of any of these, please send me names and addresses. Mary Moore Mullin Mowery and Al traveled to Washington, D.C., last July to celebrate their son Mark's 40th birthday with him, his wife, Bev, and their children, Melissa and Jeffrey. The Mowerys' daughter Cindy and her family (children Kyle and Kristen) were there and son Leighton came from California. Mary Moore said that they have enjoyed entertaining guests at their home in Hilton Head, S.C. In October, they went to Cocoa Beach, Fla., for a launching of the Cassini Mission to Saturn and to bid farewell to many friends with whom Al worked in the space program. In Febru:Lry, Helen Melton Lukhard and Dee enjoyed a twoweek adventure to Ecuador and the Galapagos Ishmds. They hiked and saw many interesting animals. We express deep and sincere sympathy to Pat Eanes Jackson and her two sons on the death of
husband and father, Royce, who passed away on Feb. I4, 1998, after a long battle with cancer. Eliza Hubble Severt reminded us all of our project to establish either the Class of 1956 Scholarship or the Class of 1956 Lectureship, which will require us to raise $25,000. I urge you to keep this in mind when considering your gift to our college. Of the $8,000 that was contributed by our class in 1997, only $3,000 was designated for this project. If you want to ensure the Class of '56's place in Westhampton history be sure to note "Westhampton College Class of 1956 Fund" in the memo portion of your check. Thank you for all you do. Edna and I watch our mail daily for news from you. Please don 't disappoint us.
Lucille Burnett Garmon, W, of Carrollton, Ga., continues to teach at Georgia State U. Her Internet address is http://www.westga.edu/ ~chem/faculty/lucy.html. Her husband, Gerald Garmon R'56 retired in 1996. ' ' Dr. Katharine Clark Kersey, W, of Portsmouth, Va., continues as a professor at Old Dominion U. and is chair of the department of child study. She and her husband Wilbur became first-time grandpar~nts ' with the birth ofHannah.
James D. Cooper, R, of Jacksonville Beach, Fla. , works as a real estate broker and is co-owner ofDriverOil Co. in Deland, Fla., a distributor for British Petroleum and City Services petroleum products in the central Florida area. The Rev.James F. Davenport Sr., R, of White Marsh, Md. , retired in July 1997 after serving Middle River Baptist Church as associate pastor/ minister of music for more than 25 years. During the past two years, he has made two mission trips to Moldova with the Singing Churchmen of Maryland/Delaware. He also volunteers as senior adult coordinator of his church. He and his wife, Pat, have been married more than 40 years. Their two sons and daughters-in-law and their four grandchildren live nearby.
Dr.J. Leo Crosier, R, of Prince George, Va., retired from the practice of orthopedic surgery on June 13, 1997. He works full time for the Virginia Department of Health as medical facilities inspector in the complaint division, Center for Quality Health Care Services and Consumer Protection.
He has two married children and two grandchildren. William E. "Buddy" Davis, B, of Richmond, retired from the real estate business and does reverse mortgages for senior adults. Robert E. Kelly, R, ofHigh Point, N.C. , has been the project manager for the building of a textile plant in India. Prior to that project, he managed the renovation of a plant in Mexico. lbe Rev.John H. McKay, R, of Spotsylvania, Va., celebrated his I0th anniversary as pastor of the Zoar Baptist Church at Locust Grove, Va. He suffered a slight stroke last August but has recovered well. Dr.Julian C. Metts Jr., R, of Cartersville, Va., is an orthodontist and has a practice in Chester, Va. He also takes part in a Rotary International project that helps with medical and educational care for the people of Guyana, South America.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary GARY MOORE COLEMAN 2 306 Marlyn Drive Wilmington, DE 19808 Margaret Spencer Hernandez participates in one of the largest studies conducted on women's health - the Women's Health Initiative. This organization studies the effects of diet, calcium and hormones on the longevity of women. Attending the Area III AGEHR Hand bell Festival at James Madison U. was exciting for Nancy Kipps Hughey. She is active with her church choir, the Virginia Music Ensemble and bird watching. Administrative work for an allvolunteer program on teen-age dating violence tops Ellen Matlick Klein's busy agenda. The work involves 15 area high schools in New Jersey. Ellen also co-chairs the buildings & grounds committee at her temple. Her volunteer work at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Reach to Recovery progran1 focuses on visits with women who have had breast surgery to provide peer support for them. An AMA Meeting in Dallas and a trip to Spain highlighted Pat MacDonald Allen's and Dick's year. Cary Hancock Gilmer and Don joined their church friends for a cruise of the western Caribbean. A bike trip through Ireland challenged Peggy Dulin Crews and Merrill, while Annette Ellis Osborne found Sydney Harbor in Australia delightful. Jo Edward Mierke and Ed both completed their master's degrees in counseling in May. They work with families of teen-agers who are in trouble with the law.
Recertification in summer computer courses has been useful to Anita Knipling Scott in assisting Fred with business accounl5. The Internet continues to revolutionize Anita's teaching strategies, and there is no current talk of her retirement! Their daughter Kim launched a new public relations firm and is busy with clienl5 in government relations. Nancy Hopkins Phillips and BiJJ are officially in residence at their "retirement home" in Wintergreen, Va. Nancy still teaches at Lynchburg College. Abig event for Sue Sybert Allen was a visit from her JMUroommate and her husband who live in Denmark. Sue was able to locate three other JMUsuitemates and arrange a whirlwind vacation that took her guests to visit each one, ending with a week at the Allens' Kitty Hawk, N.C., beach house. Gaile Sykes continues to teach at Honolulu 's McKinley High School, where she coaches the cheerleaders. She may reti re from teaching this year but is dedicated to her work at the animal hospital. She helps in surgeries and resuscitations. Our condolences to Annette Ellis Osborne, whose mother passed away in March 1997, and to Anita Knipling Scott, who lost her mother in January 1998. Please don 't forget that mynext news deadline is Sept. 1.
The following individuals served as University of Richmond delegates at presidential inaugurations betweenJuly 1, 1997, andJune 30, 1998. Maiy Levering Evans, W'61 • Miami University, Oxford, Ohio James J. Sweeny, R'49 • Saint Maiy's College, Moraga, Calif. Dr. Carey E. Stronach, R'61 • Richard Bland College, Petersburg, Va. Kerry Hall Flye, W'84 • Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. Elizabeth Cockrell Bennett, W'S! • University of Dallas, Texas Dr. Benjamin F. Sheftall, R'69 • The Citadel, Charleston, S.C. Marie Blaze Thayer, B'83 • University of Vermont William C. Lincoln, R'73 • University of Minnesota Carol S. Grizzard, W'S0 • Pikeville College, Pikeville, Ky. Dr. Douglas Leslie Anderson, R'67 • Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Mary McLean Beck, W'68 • Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Neb. Carl C. Gillespie Jr., L'57 • Bluefield College, Bluefield, Va. Dr. J. Ralph Noonkester, R'44 • The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss. Richard A. Maxwell, B'58 • Installation of chancellor at University of Nebraska at Omaha Emily Camp Lewis, B'79 • Columbia College, Columbia, S.C. Frances Fowler Whitener, W'71 • Franklin College, Franklin, Ind. Dr. Ann RowleyPenberthy, G'77 • Albion College, Albion, Mich. Charles H. Ryland, R'36 and L'39 • Rappahannock Community College, Glenns, Va.
Raoul L. Weinstein, R, of Lakeland, Fla, competes in the Central Florida Senior Games, but not in track- in ballroom dancing. He is president of Weinstein Realty.
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Dr. Patricia Testerman Pinson, W, of Ocean Springs, Miss., is vice
president and professor of fin e arts at William Carey College in Gulfport, Miss.
S. Wyndham Anderson, R, is retired and lives in NewYork City. He enjoyed the dedication ofUR's Jepson Alumni Center in October 1997 and joined Don Falls, B, in meeting the recipients of the Class of 1961 Scholarship. Timothy A. Foltz, R, ofFredericksburg, Va. , works as a sales manager for Virginia Hiway Inc. He enjoyed a hunting trip to Canada, where he shot a trophy moose. Harold A. Vanness, R, of Covington, Va. , took early retirement from Westvaco Corp. after working for 30 years. He served as administrative manager of its chemical operations for the last 15 years.
ANNE MILLS SIZEMORE 510 East Mississippi St. Liberty, MO 64068 sizemorea@william.j ewell. edu Elizabeth "Betty" Marlow, who travels and lectures in Europe three times a year, conducted seminars in Norway, Holland and Greece for six weeks this past spring. In addition to her lecturing, consulting and counseling career, she is writing another book. She finds it expanding and enriching to be in different cultures. Judi Vanderboegh Carroll and her husband, Bob, of Richmond, welcomed their third grandson on Jan. 19. Robert Nathaniel Carroll was born to their son Andrew and his wife, Melissa, who also live in Richmond. Joyce Belle Montgomery continues to teach physical education at the Ronceverte Elementary School in Ronceverte, W.Va. She has three sons who live and work in Delaware, Washington , D.C., and Toledo, Ohio.
Ruth Carver Moss of Richmond enjoys all the pursuits that she never had time to follow when her children were young. She serves as president of Crestwood Farms Garden Club and put together a bird sanctuary display for the Maymont Flower Show. She also sews and does smocking for her five grandchildren. Minna Wilson Hall and her husband, Bill, live in Oklahoma City, where she is a school psychologist and he has had a medical practice for 25 years. One of their sons is a cil~I engineer, and his wife and their 3-year-old twins live in Oklahoma City. Another son lives in New York City, and their daughter is a pharmaceutical rep in Arkansas. Nowthat Nancy Edwards Batterman ofDanville, Va., and her husband have both retired, they enjoytraveling. Recent trips have been to Australia, New Zealand, the Canadian Rockies, the Grecian Isles, England, Scotland and Wales. Their daughter and their two granddaughters also live in Danville, and their son lives in east Tennessee. Martha Kessler Goodman has been teaching English for the past 25 years at Central Virginia CommunityCollege in Lynchburg. Her husband teaches religious studies at Lynchburg College. They lived overseas for a number of years. Their daughter is married
and lives in Greensboro, N.C. , and their son is a student at Union Seminary in Richmond. In January, I had a nice surprise when the Council oflndependent Colleges honored me for national leadership and service during il5 1998 College Presidents Institute held in Naples, Fla. I completed a four-year term on the CIC Presidents' Spouses Task Force and served as the 1997 chair. The eightmember task force is responsible for planning and administering the spouses' workshops and programs at national conferences.
Austin Brockenbrough Ill, B, was elected president of the board of directors of the Virginia Historical Society. He also serves as past rector of UR's Board of Trustees. Dr. Bradley H. Gunter, R, of Charlottesville, Va., was named president and CEO of Scott & Stringfellow Capital Management. Dr. Clifton L. Parker, R, of Richmond, retired from his practice of pulmonary medicine in 1995. He was cofounder of the Pulmonary Association. He remarried in May 1997 and has four children from a previous marriage. He is building a charter boat that he and his son plan to operate from Hatteras, N.C.
Dalton A. Parker, R, of Columbia, S.C., and his wife, Barbara, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary last September in Spain. Their daughters, Mandy and Amy, joined them. Mayo S. Silvey Jr., B, of Powhatan , Va. , works for an American company in the Czech Republic, where he teaches ethics with business.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary NANCY RICHARDSON 600 Boxford Road Bradford, MA 01835 nrichardso n@div.harvard. edu
Myapologies to everyone for forgetting the Dec. I deadline for the spring edition. I think I'm clear about the schedule now. Barbara Davies Brewer and Richard are in the process of moving to Southport, N.C. Their son Bruce, AR'93, was married to A.my Fowler, AW'93, on Aug. 9, 1997. Kitty Borum Fitzhugh and Parke anticipate a return to Virginia in the near future and plan to renovate a house outside of Richmond. They have lived for 31 years in Coral Gables, Fla. Judith Trunzo will begin a twoyear foreign service assignment in the Congo (formerlyZaire). She said the country has 200 languages! Robin Cramme Perks is a grandmother. William Parker Overman was born in earlyJanuary to daughter Anne and her husband, Curt. M.J. Willett Puckett sent word that her oldest son, Chris, was married to Sue Hinkley in May 1995. Her daughter Gwyn was married in June 1997 to Ron Berkovac. M.J. now has three grandchildren. She continues to work at Old Dominion Job Corps Center as a medical technician and dental assistant. She sent regrets that she could not be at our 35th reunion. Suzanne Northam Ooley is still "retired" and thoroughly enjoys her six grandchildren and volunteerism. She is active in the Three Rivers Westhampton alumnae association and took members on a tour of Jamestown Rediscovery in March. She volunteers on Jamestown Island and encourages folks who want to find out what is happening with archeological projects there to check out their Web site at www.apva.org. Darlene Morgan visited friends in Nevada and Texas last year. This past February she went on a sevendaycruise of the eastern Caribbean.
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Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl's husband, Robert, retired after 32 years of city management. She continues to teach high school math. Their daughter, Eleanor, married Doug Willard in August. Twin sons Richard and David are both married. Jane Thompson Kemper's son Carlton married Tricia Maddock, AW'94, in October. She and C.B. made their annual trip (a pilgrimage, really) to Charleston, S.C. , in February to enjoy the Southeastern Worldlife Expo. Lucy Hardy Johnson, who lives in Atlanta with her husband, Dan, a retired internist, has two children, Laura and Dan Jr. Lucy and Dan Sr. toured the Fiji Islands, New Zealand and Australia in February. She enjoys gardening, especiallyher rose garden. Alice Hall Lingerfelt lives in Key Largo, Fla. , from January until April. She is blessed with four grown children and seven grandchildren. As an active retiree, she enjoys golfing, sailing and working out, which she said is pretty good for the non-athlete that she was at Westhampton! Libby Wampler Jarrett has been promoting her book, The Sound ofthe Dolphin's Psalm, which is about her work with autistic children using the sounds the dolphins make. She records the sounds herself while swimming with them! Diane Hickman Jackson had her painting published in Watercolor Magic magazine, along \vith an article she wrote on painting still life (see Bookmarks, p. 23). She will be doing a solo exhibit at the Fraser Gallery in Georgetown in September and October 1998. This is quite an honor for her, as she was invited to do the show when one of her paintings won "Best of Show" in an international competition. If anyone is in the area, check it out!
Dr. N.E. Lassiter, R, of Spartanburg, S.C. See Bookmarks, p. 23. Carolyn Anthony Powers, W, of Richmond, celebrated the marriage of her daughter Kendal to Kent Kruse on May 31 , 1997. Her mother died on Nov. 8, 1997, at the age of 94. Joel). Stempil, R, and his wife, Gail, live in Dallas, where he manages a focus office for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Carol Miller Tolbert, W, of San Diego, works as assistant manager of Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Thrift Shop.
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Lyndle Eaton Smith, W, works as a degree program counselor at Dekalb College in Dunwoody, Ga. E. Olen Culler, Rand t:67, of Richmond, was named vice president of the Henrico County Bar Association board of directors. John A. Deeter, R, of Richmond, qualified for the USA Triathlon Team and participated in the World Championships in Perth, Australia, on Nov. 16, 1997. He finished 16th out of 40 in his age group. Connie Burke Fewlass, W, of Langhorne, Pa., retired on June 13, 1997, after teaching musicfor 33 years, the last 31 in the Bristol Borough School District in
Brenda Falls Holland, W'64, became the grandmother of triplets, two boys and a girl, born to her daughter last November. Pennsylvania. She enjoys gardening with perennials. Her e-mail address is jackson@netreach.net. G. Mallory Freeman Jr., R, works as corporate secretary of New Focus Films, a new full-motion picture corporation in Altamonte Springs, Fla. Their first picture, The Calling, will be out this year. He also continues with his certified estate planning company, G. Mallory Freeman & Associates Inc. , where he has worked for 23 years. He and his wife, Sarah, have two children, Douglas and Mary. Brenda Falls Holland, W, of Richmond, became a grandmother of triplets on Nov. 17, 1997, born to daughter Kathryn and her husband, Timothy Diamond. The triplets, two boys and one girl, are named Davis Falls, Nicholas Corkin and Elizabeth Grace. James Larry Hoover, R, of Kilmarnock, Va. , received his doctor of education degree from Va. Tech. He works as division superintendent of Gloucester County Public Schools. Beverly Neale Johnson, W, of Due West, S.C., and her husband, Merwyn, have a new grandson, Drew, born March 6, 1997, to their daughter Sarah and her husband, Andrew Kramer. Letty Sloan Mallery, W, of Leesburg, Va. , quit her office job and babysits for three new grandchildren born last year to her three children. She maintains her CPA certification for potential future income needs. Her husband,John, plans to retire next fall.
Vivian Virginia Davis, W, works as an administrative assistant at Vanderbilt U. in Nashville. Burrie E. Eaves III, R, was named assistant vice president with Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. A.D. Hopkins Jr., R, is an editor at the Las Vegas ReviewJournal in Las Vegas, Nev. See Bookmarks, p. 23. William Ernest Steinmetz, R, of Lancaster, Va., earned his license to practice as a registered nurse. David Traylor, R, of Richmond, has worked in physical fitness equipment sales and service for 25 years. He is with Virginia Fitness Inc. G. Thomas Tucker, B, of Falls Church, Va. , and his wife, Eleanor, plan to retire to Brunswick Plantation in Calabash, N.C. , in the summer of 2000. They have two sons in college, Randy and Kenny.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary MARGARET BRITTLE BROWN Four Baldwin Road Chelmsford, MA 01824 margaretbbrown@juno.com Jo Ellen Ripley Moore and her family have been living in Fort Wayne, Ind. , for more than five years. Her husband, Michael, is pastor of the Church of the Trinity, a small interdenominational church. They have a son, Jim, 17, and a daughter, Mary Ellen, 15. The family's goal is to establish a children's home/hostel and a Christian school. Linda Holt Lilly became a grandmother last December. The proud parents are son Ned and his wife, Susan. Ned works for Landmark Communications in Norfolk. The Lillys' son Kevin graduated from the T.C. Williams School of Law last year and hopes to join the Marine Judge Advocate General Corps. Linda and Eddie enjoyed leading a tour in July 1997 to Toulon, France. Leslie McNeal Barden's son Jamie was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa last May. He is director of membership services for the Colorado Association of Homebuilders in Denver. Leslie and Luther's son Ben attends Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., where he is a computer science major. Luther runs the Scientific Computing Resource Center at NIH. Our deepest sympathy goes to Millie Bradshaw Bradshaw, whose mother passed away in February. Millie's son, Larry, was
married last fall, and her daughter, Angie, is married and lives in Arizona. Linda Armstrong Farrar hosted the Rat Alley Six minus one for a fifth time at her Bethany Beach condo in September 1997. Evelyn Garrett Bowyer was unable to attend, as she was recovering from a heart attack suffered earlier in the summer. But Barbara Vaughan, Janet Renshaw Yates, Harryet Hubbard Wallace, Linda and I had a great time. While watching TV one evening we caught a glimpse of Barbara Gardner Cook doing a commercial for Helix Health Care. Perhaps others of you have seen her, too. Please note my e-mail address above. I have great fun keeping up with family, classmates and friends this way. I hope to hear from you , too.
C. McDonald England III, B, of Huntington, W.Va. , was nominated to serve a third term on the executive comntittee of the U.S. Golf Association. He is president of the Logan Corp., a distributor of industrial and mining supplies. Donna "Dee" Dickson Fried, W, of Baltimore, married Marvin Marks in November 1992. She works as a residential real estate appraiser. Her daughter, Rachael, is studying for her master's degree at the U. of Maryland, and her son, Matthew, is a 10th grader. K. Richard C. Sinclair, R, of Charleston, W.Va., is president and CEO ofJefferds Corp. He was selected as a Paul Harris Fellow in the Charleston Rotary Club. Karolyn McKimmey Whiteley, W, of Leesburg, Va., continues as an English teacher at Loudoun County High School. She and her husband, Mel, have two sons: Hunter is a chentical engineer and Hanes is a senior at JMU. D. Anderson Williams, R, of Alexandria, Va., celebrated his 30th year with Williams Whittle, the advertising/public relations firm he co-founded in 1967. Last year, they opened an office in Atlanta and also founded McLean Communication in Alexandria. He also serves on the board of the Association for the Preservation of Antiquities.
Elizabeth Wilson Atkinson, W, owns Sandbridge Realty, a vacationhome rental and sale company in Virginia Beach, Va. She serves on the Virginia Beach Planning Commission, ODU Educational Foundation Board and Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Board. Her daughter, Page, 25, works for Campus Crusade for Christ. Her son Clay, 22, is a senior at Va. Tech, and her son John, 18, is a high school senior. Dr.James Willard Davis, R, a urologist at Cullman Urology in Cullman, Ala., is president of the Alabama Urology Association for 1997-98. Nancy Saunders Kaplun, W, of Marietta, Ga., works as sales manager of Renaissance Atlantic Hotel-Downtown in Atlanta. Robert K. Solomon, R, is the owner of MTS Environmental in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Harriet Mann Tomlinson, W, of Monument, Colo., and her husband, Ed, enjoyed a week exploring the West with Quita Tansey Collins, W, and her husband, Bill Collins, C'72. Daniel B. Wilkins, B, works as president of Dan Wilkins and Associates, a financial consulting firm , in Richmond. His firm specializes in auto dealerships and small- to medium-size companies.
Susan Chapman Frick, W, of Bedford, Va., is a guidance/fAG coordinator for Bedford County Public Schools. Her son, Robert III, graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in May 1997 and works in Richmond. Dr. Sally Felvey Guynn, W, of Fort Collins, Colo., works as an organization development consultant for the U.S. Fish & Wildlile Service. Her sons, Will and Jason Angus, both finished college and live in Richmond. Linda Miller Marsh, W, of Brookeville, Md., continues teaching at Walt Whitman High School, primarily ninth-grade English. Her husband, Tad, has been working for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 22 years. Their son, Scott, is at Indiana U., and their daughter, Susan, is at Clemson U.
Mary Gale Atkins, W, of Richmond, has been working with Food Not Bombs, a national nonprofit group. About 30 student volunteers spend eight hours in her kitchen every Sunday preparing meals for 200-300 homeless and hungry people. She works as a landscaper at Circle of Green.
Gayle Covey, W, of Chester, Va., and her husband own Iris Systems Inc., which specializes in MIS for retail banks. Their firm was rated "world class" by Chase Manhattan. Dr.Joseph C. Dickens, R, works at the National Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Md., as lead scientist, insect biology and
behavior, in the Plant Sciences Institute's vegetable laboratory. BarryW. Elsberg, R, of Lorton , Va. , completed restoration of his 1965 red Corvette convertible. It was authenticated and judged as a "Top Flite" car. He serves as executive director and CEO of Circle Drug. Joseph}. Harding III, B, earned the professional designation of certified commercial investment member, CCIM, from the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute. He is president of Harding & Associates Inc. in Richmond. Gardner V. McCormick, R, of Wenham , Mass. , acquired Griffin Pension Services, a small business providing administrative services to retirement plans. He and his wife, Pam, have three children: Tucker, Tim and Molly. Nancy Anderson Moss, W, of Cincinnati, works part time for Bradley Publications. She enjoys her visits to North Court to visit her daughter, Wendi, AW'99. Mike Rigsby, L, of Richmond, was named a trustee of Commonwealth Catholic Charities. He works for the Virginia Bar Association. Susan Donaldson Simmons, W, ofBrea, Calif., is director of development at Whittier Christian High School. She and her husband, Eric, have three children: Amy is an RN at Marymount in Arlington; Craig is a chemistry major in college; and Keith is a high school senior at Whittier Christian.
John S. Barr, L, joined the Richmond lawfirm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe as a partner. He was formerlya principal in the firm of Maloney, Barr & Huennekens. He specializes in labor and employment litigation, construction law and securities defense litigation and enforcement. Carrol P. Bradford Jr., R, of Richmond, joined Phillips-Hall Inc. as vice president and real estate broker. He also serves as a general partner of the Woolfolk Medical Group. Frank B. Bradley III, R, founder of Fas Mart convenience stores in Mechanicsville, Va., was featured in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article on Dec. 10, 1997. His company merged \vith Southern Express stores to form 42 Fas Mart stores in central Virginia. He also serves as chairman of both the Retail Merchants Association of Greater Richmond and the publicprivate Greater Richmond Partnership Inc.
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'31 • Margaret Coleman Leake 4630 Hanover Ave. Richmond, VA 23226-1305 '36 • Martha Riis Moore 5102 ParkAve. Richmond, VA 23226-1520 '37 • Margery Moore Taylor Miller 1600 Westbrook Ave., #354 Richmond, VA 23227 '38 • Margaret Lockwood Nolting 3104 Windmoor Court Richmond, VA 23235-6868 '39 • Helene Salzmann Mellor 72 Legend Lane Houston, TX 77024-2400 '40 • Charlotte Ann Dickinson Moore 4990 Sentinel Drive, #205 Bethesda, MD 20816-3582 and Jane Davenport Reid 2214StuartAve. Richmond, VA 23220-3424 '41 • Elizabeth Holden Stipek 2300 Cedarfield Parkway, #356 Richmond, VA 23233 '42 • Betty Sessler Tyler 233 Old Newtown Road Monroe, CT 06468 '44 • MaryWarnerStephenson 140 Lisa Lane Oldsmar, FL 34677 '45 • Ruth Hiller Johnson P.O. Box356 Amherst, VA 24521 '46 • Alta Ayers Bower 10546thSt. Virginia Beach, VA 23451-2543 '4 7 • Mildred Daffron Horigan 4640 Stuart Ave. Richmond, VA 23226 '48 • Elizabeth Koltukian Cowles 5918 East 54th St. Tulsa, OK 74135 '49 • Martha Hall 309 East Atlantic St. South Hill, VA 23970 '50 • Elizabeth Givens Pierce 3131-D Stony Point Road Richmond, VA 23235 '51 • Virginia Herrink Coppock 9013NorthWestSt. Manassas, VA 22110-5023 '52 • BerthaCosbyKing 10308 Waltham Drive Richmond, VA 23233 '53 • June Pair Kilpatrick 15901 Berkeley Drive Haymarket, VA 20169-1823 '54 • Nancy Graham Harrell 410 September Drive Richmond, VA 23229 '55 • MyraEmbreyWonnald 10121 Chapel Road Potomac, MD 20854
'56 • Anne Stuart Hartz Garnett 3848 Brook Road Richmond, VA 23227-4141 and Edna Wagstaff Warncke 2956 Hathaway Road, #401 Richmond, VA 23225-1730 '57 • Lee Field Griffiths RD 5,Box52 Bedford, PA 15522-9705 '58 • Carolyn Moss Hartz 6 Berkshire Drive Richmond, VA 23229 '59 • Gary Moore Coleman 2306 Marlyn Drive Wilmington, DE 19808-2517 '60 • Sarah Hudgins Rice 745 Water St., #707 Portsmouth, VA 23704 and Lynn Mapp Wiggins 4101 Duke Drive Portsmouth, VA 23703 '61 • Anne Mills Sizemore 510 East Mississippi St. Liberty, MO 64068 '62 • Nancy Richardson 600 Boxford Road Bradford, MAO 1835-8360 '63 • Frances Pitchford Griggs 210 North Mooreland Road Richmond, VA 23229-7102 '64 • Sally Abel Taylor 6202 Maple Run Court Clifton, VA 22024 '65 • Margaret Brittle Brown Four Baldwin Road Chelmsford, MA 01824-1115 '66 • Frances Stewart Chambers 1291 Clifflure Lane Fort Mill, SC 29715 '67 • Mary-Bolling Willis Gassman 15281 WestforkDrive Glen Allen, VA 23059 '68 • Susan Lee Harris 2525 Heath Place Reston, VA 22091-4224 '69 • Bonnie Blanks Bew 5208 Fox Ridge Road Roanoke, VA 24014 '70 • MaryWinderPearson 59 Cherry Tree Farm Road Middletown, NJ 07748-2203 '71 • Linda Noell Harris 13510 Trilithon Road Midlothian, VA 23113 '72 • Gail Ruark Boyles 14402 Crossing Way Terrace Midlothian, VA 23113 and Libby Lynch Heskett 12811 Fox Meadow Drive Richmond, VA 23233-2296 '73 • Spring Crafts Kirby 9615 Hitchin Drive Richmond, VA 23233
'74 • Mary Ann Liggan Riter 1547 Heritage Hill Drive Richmond, VA 23233 '75 • Loretta Fox Albert 4948 Canadice Hill Road Hemlock, NY 14466-9648 '76 • Deborah Harrison Clark 2600 Brookwood Road Richmond, VA 23226 '77 • Jane Wheeler Nelson 103 50 Christina Road Chesterfield, VA 23832 '78 • Jane Zielinski Witowski 1105 River Walk Drive Simpsonville, SC 29681 '80 • Suzanne Vogt White 9411 Emmett Road Glen Allen, VA 23060 '81 • Mary Babb Morris 1539 Old Brook Road Charlottesville, VA 22901-1202 '83 • Debra Soukup Franklin 13531 Edmonthorpe Road Midlothian, VA 23113 '84 • Patricia Schmauss Pendleton 2223 Loch Braemar Drive Richmond, VA 23236-1610 '85 • Claire Grant Pollock 11806 Britain Way Richmond, VA 23233 '86 • Eileen Felling Smith 7785 Virginia Oaks Drive Gainesville, VA 22065 '87 • Alison Sinclair P.O. Box 71531 Richmond, VA 23255 '88 • Diehne Belz Gagnon 23 Fernwood Road Summit, NJ 07901 -2927 '89 • Diane Kraynak 1501 Autumn Honey Court, Apt. K Richmond, VA 23229-5255 '90 • Virginia Larranaga Franco 7427 Comanche Drive Richmond, VA 23225-1236 '91 • Sandra Korb Rooney 902 5 Wildtree Drive Glen Allen, VA 23060-4930 '92 • Marc Cram 3001 Floyd Ave. Richmond, VA 23221 '93 • Sydney Smith 2429 Bridgeview Lane Richmond, VA 23233 '94 • Alissa Mancuso 3308-G Forest Edge Court Richmond, VA 23294 '95 • Aynsley Bourne 816NashvilleAve., #F New Orleans, LA 70115 '97 • Siri Ann Terjesen 1020 N. QuincySt., Apt.601 Arlington, VA 22201-4646
Ernest D. Chapman, B, is the owner and partner of Blades Salon in Richmond. His salon was featured in the "Metro Business" section of the Richmond TimesDispatch on Dec. 1, 1997. Bonnie Hudgins, W, of Bellevue, Wash., works as manager of human resources at Weyerhaeuser Co. She also trains tutors in the local literary program and is a graduate student of whole systems design at Antioch U. Snead Luck, R, of Richmond, works as general manager of FN Thompson Co.'s new Henrico County office. James L. Millner, B, general manager of Saturn of Richmond, serves as chairman of the auto show committee for the 1998 Virginia International Auto Show sponsored bythe Richmond Auto Dealers Association. He also serves on the organizing committee for the 1998 Soap Box Derbyand is helping to establish the city's infrastructure that will eventuallysupport sales of electric vehicles. John G. Mizell Jr., Rand L'76, of Richmond, was named president of the Henrico County Bar Association board of directors. John M. Plunkett, C, ofBumpass, Va. , is vice president, engineering and operations, at Kesmai Corp. in Charlottesville, Va. J. Durwood Usry, R, of Richmond, received the William Barton Rogers Individual Award from the Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation fo r his contributions to the natural sciences in Virginia. He served as president of the foundation for three years.
Nicholas A. Calabro, B, of Ruther Glen, Va. , works as a systems consultant at Broughton Systems Inc. Dr. William Parker Childs, R, ofLocust Grove, Va., earned his doctorate in educational leadership from Va. Tech. He works as assistant principal at Thornburg Middle School in Spotsylvania, Va. J. Michael Priddy, R, of Palo Alto, Calif. , works as a clinical psychologist \vith offices in Los Altos and San Francisco, Calif. Martha Rothenberg Replane, W, of Granger, Ind. , and her husband, Chuck, spent New Year's week 1998 in New York. Their daughter, Shauna, is a sophomore at Indiana U., and their son Taylor is a high school senior. Preston James Taylor Jr. , R, of Washington, D.C. , is manager of credit services for the Eastern Group in Alexandria, Va.
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Donna Whiteway, W, of
R. Wayne Marker, B, of
Richmond, earned the Graduate Realtor Institute professional designation through the Realtors Institute of Va.
Richmond, joined Harrison & Bates Inc. as senior property manager in commercial real estate. He and his wife, Cynthia Dalton Marker, W'72, have two daughters, Kimberly and Lisa, who both graduated from U.Va.
'72 Paul S. Hatfield, R, works as
assistant controller of Universal Studios Music Entertainment Group at Universal Studios in Hollywood, Calif. He and his wife, Ginny, who is a consultant for the Los Angeles City Council, have a daughter,Jeni , who is a high-school freshman. Rachel Pierce Newell, W, of Leesburg, Va., continues as an elementa1y music teacher in Loudoun Public Schools. She enjoyed a rendezvous with classmates Marilib Henry Tomb, Donna Renfro Williamson
and JudyJohnson Mawyer lier daughter Margaret is a student at U. Va., and her daughter Mary is at Loudoun County High School. Her husband, Wayne, works as a geologist. Susan Lambert Wagener, W, of Richmond, completed her master ofLiberal arts degree in August 1997 and is pursuing a career in museum education. She has a son in middle school and three children in college or graduate school.
'73 John W. Anderson, Rand L'77,
merged his lawfirm of Christian , Markham & Anderson wi th Spotts, Smith , Fain & Buis. He is a shareholder and director and specializes in corporate and real estate lawand business transactions. Harold C. Campbell, R, of Richmond, earned his MBA in April I997 at VCU, where he fini shed first in his class and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma National Scholastic Honor Society. Philip S. Chenault, R, of Amherst, Va., celebrated another year of remission after his brain tumor operation 10 years ago. His daughter, Sarah, turned 2 I on Jan. I I, 1998. He has enjoyed season tickets for the University Players' productions this year. George C. Dunn, R, ofRichmond, is a senior lender at NationsBank, where he has worked 20 years. Frank L. "Chip" Gillis, R, of Westport, Conn ., joined Bear Stearns & Co. In c. as a managing director. lie enjoyed a month off between jobs to spend tim e with his fa mily. Robert] . Little Ill , B, is manager and funeral director of Colonhd Funeral Home Inc. in Smithfield, Va. li e ;~so serves as president of RJL 3 and VEnterprises, which established Smithfield True Value Home Center inJulv 1994.
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Carol Ann Oppenheim Spencer, W, and her husband,Jack, Live in
Chester, Va., with their children, Kerri , a sophomore at Ma,y Baldwin College, and Mark, a high school junior. Willie P. Tyree Jr., C, of Mechanicsville, Va., received the SundaySchool Teacher Certificate of Appreciation in November 1997 from Highland Park United Methodist Church for his service to the teaching ministty. Jeanie Nicholson Veith, W, and her husband.Jon , both work for the U.S. Army and have lived in Germany since 1982. She is coordinator for the Armed Forces Foster Care Program and also coordinates adoption efforts for Americans living in Europe. Jon is a systems analyst and instructor for the computerized Army simulationtraining program. They have two sons, Joseph, 21, andJerome, 16, who both are fluent in English, German and French. The Veiths live
Jeanie Nicholson Vieth, W'73, is coordinator for the Armed Forces Foster Care Program and also coordinates adoption efforts for Americans living in Europe. in Niedermohr, which is between Heidelburg and Paris. Ellis F. Wills, B, works as vice president of Irwin Mortgage in Smithfield, Va.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary SPRING CRAFTS KIRBY
made seven~ special trips to Richmond to help us out. Our meetings were fun , including Kelly and Betty staying in the new Jepson Alumni Center; wandering all over the Westhampton side of the lake on a rainy night (dejit vu'); and visiting mydaughter Lee, AW'00, and Nancy's daughter Maureen , AW'0l, in the dorms. Nancy Martin Jett and Barry, B'72, have built a new home in Beaverdam, Va. , complete with stables for their five horses. Their daughters still participate in numerous horse shows around the state. Kelly Hardy and Jack stay busy with work and enjoy Jack's favorite pastime, golf. Martha Poston Turner and Pat, R'72, have joined the ranks of college parents. Their daughter Grace is a freshman at Sweet Briar. She sees a lot of Carter Hudgins (Donna Kingery Hudgins and Carter, R'72) , Scott Harris (Betty Rodman Harris and Scott) , Greg Garbee (Patty Stringfellow Garbee and Mitch , R'72 and L'7 5) , and Gordon Yowell (Susan Sheffield Yowell and Steve) who are all students at Hampden-Sydney. The Harris's other son,John, is a student at Episcopal High School. He spent his second semester in Switzerland, and Betty and Scott went over to spend time with him. I received a letter from Agnes Mobley Fuller at Christmas. Aggie is in her seventh year of teaching at ODU and stills sings with the Virginia Symphony. Her daughter Laurel is a student at Norfolk Collegiate, where she is involved with the art and drama clubs. Laurel also sings with the Virginia Children's Chorus performing with the symphony, as well as going on tour. Son CLinton attends Court Street Academy and is in scouts and baseball. The Fullers enjoyed a train trip to Montreal last summer. Sam and I have enjoyed a couple of business trips - one to Maui, Hawaii , where our son Christopher was able to join us, and one to Tucson , Ariz. Please write and let me know what's up with you and yours. This is much more fun to write when I have news, and our classmates love to hear how you are!
MBA in 1993 and is president of Forensic Testing Inc. and Forensic QC Inc. He is also the founder of TestNet. Al G. Bridger Jr., B, of Richmond, was named vice president of the Virginia Mediation Network. He works for the Office of Consumer Affairs. Joyce Wise Dodd, G, was named executive director ofVCU's School of Mass Communications' 21st Centmy News Center. Robert L. Elwood, R, works in development, marketing and property management of the count,y club community of Tierra de! Sol in Arashi, Aruba. He received hisJ.D. and MBA from U.Va. and worked 11 years for Tipton Lakes planned community in Columbus, Ind. , and seven years with Bay Colony in Naples, Fla. SaraAllenJohnson, B, of Rockville, Va. , continues to work as a legal assistant at her husband's law firm of Johnson & Gilman. Their son Grayson 11, is at Va. Tech; son Alton is at Patrick Herny High School; and son Christopher is in sixth grade. Demetrios Pappas, R, works as manager of Carolina Fine Foods Restaurant in Greenville, S.C. He and his wife, Frances, have two sons,Jason, in eighth grade, and John in seventh. Both boys take karate, and John won first place in the Atlanta International Tournament. Pamela Floyd Pulley, W, of Danville, Va., and her husband, Glenn Pulley, R'73 and L'76, report that their son Carson is a student at Richmond College and living in his dad's old dorm , Wood Hall. Julia Habel Thompson, W, of Arlington, Va., works as director of Language for Life and is an adjunct professor at Averett College's international program in Northern Virginia.
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surgical office last year prior to the opening of the new Loudoun Hospital Center. He continues as chief of general surgery at the center, but he finds the task of raising a teen and two preteens far more challenging. Robert T. Dail, B, a colonel in the U.S. Army, is executive officer to the deputy chief of staff, logistics, at the Pentagon. He and his wife, Anne Creasy Dail, 8'77, live in Springfield, Va.
9615 Hitchin Drive Richmond. VA 23233 RJZM97 A@prodigy.co m
Jeffrey W. Blanchard, R, works as
By the time you read this, our 25th reunion will be all over, but I am sure it was great! Alot of work bya lot of people went into the planning. Martha Poston Turner w:L, our fearless leader, helped byNancy
Dr. Stuart Chapman Bogema Jr., R, and his wife, Connie, have lived
Martin Jett, Betty Rodman Harris, me, and Kelly Hardy, who
a management analyst for the U.S. District Cou11 in Washington , D.C. He was formerly with the Fairfax Circuit Court. He and his wife, Sharon , live in Centreville, Va.
in Clifton, Va., for 14 years. They have four sons: David, Riley, Cody and Harrison. Stuart completed his
Dr. Stanley D. Dameron, R, of
Fredericksburg, Va. , was inducted as a fellow in the Pierre Fouchard Society, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the art and science of dentistty. Dr. Hugh E. Fraser III, R, of Reidsville, N.C., and his family enjoyed two weeks in Washington state last August while he reported for active reserve duty at Bremerton Naval Hospital. He and his wife, Fran, have three children: Katie, II; Clair, 9; and Ben, 7. Robert W. Horuff, B, of Brookfield, Conn., was promoted in May 1997 to director of advertising services worldwide at Texaco in White Plains, N.Y. W. Kenneth Hunt III, B, joined Life of Georgia and Southland Life in Atlanta in July 1997 after serving as president of Liberty Life Insurance Co. in Greenville, S.C. He is a CPA. Ramon L.Jacobs, R, of Lovettsville, Va. , earned his master's degree in technology education from Shenandoah U. and works for ArLington County Public Schools. In 1995 he married Janice Pittleman, a special education teacher, and they live with his two sons, Will , 17, and Gavin , 15. James C. Khoury, R, works as a private investor in Houston. Linda McKee!, W, of Richmond, was elected to the board of directors of the Greater Richmond Technology Council. She is president of Tech-Site Inc. Dr. Mary Marshall Overstreet, W and L'77, completed medical
school at U.Va. in 1988 and her psychiatric residencyat MCV in 1992. Alter working in the public sector, she opened the first full-time psychiatric practice in rural Piscataquis County, Maine. M. Rudolph West, Rand L'79, of Richmond, was elected secreta1y of Ethyl Corp. on Jan. I, 1998. He continues as legal counsel in the firm 's law department.
Cindy Creasy, W, works as the
associate editor of the features department for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She and her husband, Ed Spyhalski, live in Richmond. Dr. C. Bernard Cross, Rand G'78, of Waterford, Va. , moved his
Melissa Buffington Damiano, W,
was promoted to vice president, human resources, at L-3 Comm unications in Hauppauge, N.Y. F. Mallory Davis III, R, of Richmond, joined Douglas Publications Inc. inJanua,y 1997 as vice president of operations. He was formerly operations manager at Conex Marketing. Wendy Haynes Eastman, W, of Pullman, Wash. , works as gift planning officer at the WSU Foundation. Her husband, Kevin Eastman, R'78 and G'89, is head basketball coach at Washington State U. They have a son,Jake, 7. J. David Gibbs, R, is president of the claim services division of Travelers Property Casualty Corp. in Hartford, Conn., and serves as
executive vice president of the company. He and his wife, Kay, have two children, ages 9 and 5. Brooks E. Hatch, R, continues as a sports writer for the Corvallis Gazette-Times in Corvallis, Ore. Gary Kendall, L, of Charlottesville, Va., received the Presidential Award of Merit from the American Board of Trial Lawyers for his distinguished service and outstanding leadership. He is a vice president with the Charlottesville fi rm of Michie, Hamlett, Lowry, Rasmussen &Twee!. Kay Lambert King, W, was appointed to the 1997-98 Governor's Council for Fitness and Sports. She is executive director of the Tuckahoe YMCA in Richmond. Jonathan H. Poston, R, of Charleston, S.C., is the director of preservation for the Historic Charleston Foundation. See Bookmarks, p. 23. Steven P. Power, R, president of Alamo SupplyCo. in Roanoke, Va. , opened a branch office in Radford, Va. George M. Thomas, B, a U.S. Navy petty offi cer 2nd class, is stationed at Navy Submarine Torpedo Facility in Yorktown, Va. He joined the Navy in 1984.
The Hon. Carlos E. Carrasquillo, R, of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, was appointed Superior Court judge on April 15, 1997. Mary Blanton Childress, W, of Christiansburg, Va., teaches second grade again after being a stay-athome-mom for nine years. She and her husband have two children, Michael, 10, and Beth, 7. Francis John MonahanJr., R, is a police captain for the City of Richmond. He and his wife, Melike, have two children, Laura, 2, and Elise, 5 months. He also has two children from a previous marriage, Cailin, 14, andJena, II. Robert Seabolt, R, of Richmond, was elected to the board of directors of the American Heart Association's Richmond Metropolitan Council. He also serves as a URtrustee. John C. Shea, L, was inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is with the Richmond lawfirm of Marks & Harrison. C. Michael West, R, works as a senior proj ect manager for Lincoln Property Co. in Arlington, Va.
William Davenport, L, of Midlothian, Va., was elected third vice president of the Virginia Association of Local Elected Constitutional Officers. He is a Chesterfield County commonwealth 's attorney.
RECENT ALUMNI freshman year threw a keg party to get votes. Needless to say, that's not one of my tactics today." He won that seat on the Richmond College Senate and was active in student TomJardim first caught the political activities for all of his four years bug when he was a little boy running at UR. for student council in grammar school.Today the mayor ofWestfield, Jardim remembers some of his college friends laughing at him as NJ , he still loves politics but he is he went off to student government quick to point out,"I'm not a meetings on Saturday afternoons. politician, I'm just a normal person. "They just didn't understand how 'Tm someone who wants to make a difference and that's what local much I enjoyed being involved. politics is all about." Richmond offered me so many great Growing up in the rural town of opportunities to have an impact, to be a part of what was happening." Millington, N.].,Jardim, R'88, knew he someday would be a lawyer and that With five older brothers and sisters who went to college in the Northeast,Jardim he would find his way into politics. He credits his uncle,Alexander J. Menza, a New Jersey assemblyman decided he would head south when his time came. "The University of Richmond was a popular college and state senator, with being a political role model in my high school," he remembers,"and I knew I early in his life and later for encouraging him to run wanted to be in a capital city. Richmond was for mayor. perfect."A visit to campus sold him. "Being mayor ofWestfield is the best job in the He remembers floating with friends on a raft in world," Jardim says. But at one dollar a year, the mayor's the middle ofWesthampton Lake during his first salary doesn't put food on the table.What does butter week at UR. "I remember how beautiful it was, how the bread for Jardim, his wife, Karen Fountain,W'89, much fun we were having and thinking, 'This is a and their newborn daughter, Cecile, is his job as an great place to be in school."' attorney. He practices employment, banking and foreclosure law at Sills Cummis Zuckerman Radin A political science major,Jardim recalls with fondness his freshman year adviser and political Tischman Epstein & Gross in Newark, N.J. science professor, Dr. Thomas R. Morris, who later Juggling a full-time job and being mayor is a challenge,Jardim says. Before his daughter was born in went on to be president of Emory & Henry College in Emory,Va. "He was an excellent professor. He May, he was putting in 35-40 hours a week as mayor in addition to his full-time law practice. He has since cut knew his politics and could analyze any political situation." back so that he can spend more time with his family. "Being mayor could be all-consuming," he says,"and if it During his senior year,Jardim interned in thenwere possible, I would love to be mayor full time." Virginia Gov. Baliles' office.A mentor in the Elected to a two-year term in November 1996,Jardim governor's office helped him find a job in a was the first Democratic mayor ofWestfield in 85 years. Richmond law firm where the state's Democratic chair practiced. During his year and a half as a When he runs for re-election in November he will again go door to door to speak with many of the town's paralegal in the firm ,Jardim also got involved in Douglas Wilder's successful campaign for governor. 29,000 residents. "There are 10,500 homes in Westfield. I knocked on In 1991 Jardim entered American University, where he earned a law degree and a master of arts in 10,300 doors in 1996 and I'll do the same-maybe more-this year," Jardim says. "There's nothing like foreign affairs. He worked in a small firm near his hometown until coming to Sills Cummis in 1997. shaking someone's hand, looking them in the eye and Running for governor or president is not on asking for their vote." He believes it was personal Jardim's list of career aspirations. He 'd like to win in contact with so many of the townspeople that helped November but doesn't have plans for holding him win in '96. political office beyond that. "I love to figure out the Jardim's campaign tactics are similar to those he best way to get a road paved or to clean up a used freshman year at UR when he was running for a spot on the Richmond College Senate. He recalls going downtown and I don't think I'll ever get that out of my system. Somehow or another, I'll always find a door to door in Moore Hall asking for votes. He points way to be involved in local government." • out that some things have changed, however. "A friend of mine and I who were running for the senate our
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Bonnie Axtell Doty, W, moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., in 1994 with her husband, Ormond, and their three children:James, 14; John , II ; and Steven, 7. Lester Lee George, R, of Chesterfield, Va. , was featured in the "Metro Business" section of the Richmond Jtmes-Dispatch on Feb. 2, 1998. He is president of Colonial Golf Design Inc. His firm has been chosen to renovate two of the CountryClub of Virginia's three golf courses. Wayne L. Greer, R, of West Point, Va., is vice president of Mountcastle Wood Products and West Point Log Corp.
N. Blake Martin III, R, of Bedford, Va., is president and owner of Clean Machine car wash in Lynchburg. Karen D. Miller, W, founded DOMEimaging systems inc. in 1989 and serves as vice president of sales and marketing. The company appeared on both Inc. magazine's and Deloitte and Touche's "500 fastest growing companies" lists. She and her husband, Dr. Richard A. Pope, live in Natick, Mass. Richard W. Payne III, B, of Chester, N.J., was appointed president of Ivy Mortgage Inc. He also was appointed to FNMA Regional Advisory Board.
Glenn Blazek, Rand L'82 , was named on-site administrator of the Reporting Academy of Virginia School of Professional Studies. He oversees the operations of the Richmond campus. Mark Buss, B, is vice president, international sales and marketing, at the Han1ilton Beach/Proctor-Silex Inc. corporate headquarters in Richmond. He previouslyworked at the Bristol Myers Squibb Co. as general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and as director for operations and financial planning.
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Laura Gordy Davison, B, of Towson, Md. , works 16 hours a day at a "most challenging, rewarding volunteer job" as mother to Hugh , 6; Christie, 3 1/2; and Carrie, 2. Haig Vahan Kalbian, R, of Springfield, Va. , works in his own lawfirm of three attorneys in Washington , D.C. He specializes in complex commercial litigation and represents clients from the Middle East, including members of the Saudi royal family. Will R. Kitchen Jr., R, teacher and coach at Atlee High School in Mechanicsville, Va. , received the R.E.B. Award for Teaching Excellence from the Community Foundation. He served as defensive back coach/special teams coordinator at Randolph-Macon College, the 1997 O.D.A.C. champions. Steven Brown Messick, R, of Herndon, Va. , works as vice president, product sales, for Sybase Corp. He and his wife, Susan, have three sons: Michael, 10; Ryan, 7; and Connor, 2. Betsy Miller Royals, W, of Gurnee, 111., works part time in human resources for a manufacturing company. She also is a graduate student in business. She and her husband, Terry Royals, R'80, have two daughters, Meghan , 14, and Emily, 10. Robin Starr, L, executive director of the Richmond SPCA, was profiled in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Jan. 6, 1998. She form erly practiced law for 18 years and was a partner with the law firm of Williams, Mullen, Christian &Dobbins.
Stephen T. Barron, R, of San Antonio, Texas, works as national sales manager for World Gear, a manufacturer of sporting gear bags and cases. Beth Tanner Burrus, W, joined Patricof &Co. Ventures Inc. as director of fund development. She was formerly senior vice president, sales and client service, at Weiss Peck Greer in New York. She and her husband, Peter, live in Glen Cove, N.Y., with their two children, Libby, 6, and Peter Jr., 3. John D. Epps, L, was elected president of the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. He is with the Richmond law firm of Hunton &Williams.
Lee E. Farnum, W, of Fairfield, Conn., works as program manager for IBM. She supervises the company's global travel agency relationship. Cheryl Lawrence Fockler, B, moved back to Richmond after spending eight years in New York City and Greenwich, Conn. She and her husband,Jack, have two sons, Austin, 2, and Holden, 3 months. William M. Lowish, R, of Martinez, Ga., was promoted to sales manager for Martin Marietta's South Georgia/Florida district. Roseleen P. Rick, L, of Powhatan, Va. , was elected a partner in the Richmond-based lawfirm of Mays &Valentine. Terry Royals, R, of Gurnee, Ill., works for UPC Health Network as a regional director of sales. He and his wife, BetsyMiller Royals, W'79, have two daughters, Meghan , 14, and Emily, 10. Sherry Williams Shannon, W, of Dallas, is a partner in Corporate Citizen Group, a consulting firm that provides strategic planning to corporations in their community relations efforts. David H. Sproat, R, of Richmond, was promoted to senior vice president at Crestar Bank. He works as the customer- knowledge database analyst manager.
Wesley N. Cooper, B, of Weatogue, Conn. , has been with Advest Inc. for the past 12 years, and for the past four years he has been a principal securities trader in the Nasdaq trading department. He and his wife, Kathy, will celebrate 18 years of marriage in June 1998. They have two children, Meghan, I4, and Colleen, II. Douglas L. Dunnevant, R, of Richmond, earned the professional designation of Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant from the American Society of CLU &ChFC. He works at Life of Virginia. Sterling Edmunds Jr., B, of Richmond, was named chief operating officer at Crestar Mortgage Corp. He has been with the firm for IO years and serves on the executive committee of the board of directors. Susan Case Grant, W, and her family returned to the states after living in London , where her husband was the assistant Army attache. She works as executive vice president of commercial operations of Robbins Gioia Inc. They live in Great Falls, Va. , with their children, Caitlin, 5, and Tommy, 2. Philip B. Lloyd, R, of Winchester, Va. , works as a client representative for Biochemical Corp. He and his wife have four children.
Scott O. Silvester, R, of Midlothian, Va. , works as an investment representative with Edward Jones Investments, which provides investment and financial advice and products to individuals. He passed the NASO Series 7 exam to sell securities, mutual funds and variable annuities, and the state licensing exam. He has three children: Martin , 14; Laura, 11 ; and Alexander, 8. Beverly Warner Snukals, L, with the Richmond law firm of Mezzullo & Mccandlish, is co-vice chairman of the board of directors of the Virginia chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Deborah Allen Talley, 8, moved with her daughters, Carol Elizabeth, 12, and Anne Douglas, 9, back to her hometown ofEmporia, Va. , where she works as supervisor of the Emporia office of Cherry, Bekaert and Holland, a public accounting firm with 22 offices throughout the Southeast. Betsy Stroud Winston, W, was promoted to Richmond manager of Select Staffing Services. She was formerly the firm 's senior sales manager.
Jack W. Britts Jr. , R, of Cheyney, Pa. , and his wife, Nancy, accepted an assignment in Europe for Zeneca Pharmaceuticals. He is responsible for all business in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Gregg E. Davidson, R, of Richmond, was elected managing director at Wheat First Butcher Singer. Virginia S. Duvall, L, of Midlothian, Va. , received the 1997 Woman of Achievement Award from the Metropolitan Richmond Women's Bar Association. She is an assistant commonwealth 's attorney in Chesterfield County. Kathleen Jones, W, works as a computer support administrator for the U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit in Richmond. She has three children: Martin, 14; Laura, 11 ; and Alex, 9. Donald E. Kierson, C, of Midlothian, Va., was elected a director of the Greater Richmond Technology Council. He is vice president of Broughton Systems Inc. Patricia Steppe Shelton, C, received the Outstanding Achievement Award for 1997 from Lawyers Title Insurance Corp. for her "exemplary performance on a consistent basis in serving the needs of the·companyand its customers." She works as a claims supervisor in the company's legal department.
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Advising on science policy
Science. She and 34 other Ph.D. scientists and engineers were groomed to serve one-year terms as science advisers for congressmen or senators. Kirkpatrick joined the office of Sen.Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. , and worked on issues ranging from prevention of the Department of Commerce dismantlement to the formation of a bipartisan Senate manufacturing task force. She soon caught what she calls "Potomac Fever"and is delighted to be back in Washington, especially because she's now closer to her parents in Carlisle, Pa., and her sister Allison,W'91 ,in Richmond. "Working in the White House environment is an intense and exhilarating experience," she says. "I am thrilled and honored to be part of the process and to be working with such talented and dedicated people. In this job, I will help identify critical technological initiatives of national interest that need to be considered by the president." As a chemistry major with a business option at the University of Richmond, Kirkpatrick never would have dreamed that her career would follow such a path. She credits chemistry faculty members Dr. Emma Goldman and Dr. Ray Dominey as helping mold her professional aspirations beyond UR. "Emma and Ray played an instrumental role in carving out my graduate career," she says. "During my junior year at UR, they took time out of their personal schedules to take me to graduate science programs. I am forever grateful to them for their commitment to my professional development." It was Goldman and Dominey who introduced Kirkpatrick to materials science engineering, an interdisciplinary form of engineering that combines chemistry, physics and engineering to evaluate how plastics, metals, ceramics and composites behave under various conditions. She says her experience at a liberal arts college and as a head resident at UR gave her the confidence to strike out on a new path. "Being a head resident at Westhampton helped me to hone my leadership skills, while the liberal arts environment provided me with ways to look at issues from a broad base and with a creativity to step out of the academic box," she says. "Thanks to my UR foundation, I saw that I could use my doctorate in materials science in one of two ways: substantively as a research scientist, or as a process whereby I could use my problem-solving skills to dissect, understand and solve a problem. I have chosen to follow the latter." Kirkpatrick says she someday hopes to parlay her skills into private industry to forecast future market sectors for high-tech industry. After that, she says, anything's possible. "Who knows, maybe someday I'll run for office." •
Dr. Kelly S. Kirkpatrick,W'88, is used to watching people's eyes glaze over when she talks about her Ph.D. research in materials science and engineering. But Kirkpatrick views such reactions as a challenge, not an insult. As a senior policy coordinator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories inAlbuquerque, N.M. , Kirkpatrick is making a career out of helping executive management to articulate their research programs in clear and non-technical terms. "I help bridge scientists, policymakers and politicians by developing ways to deliver technical messages so that everyone is speaking the same language," Kirkpatrick explains. "Most elected officials and staff who are responsible for the federal research and development budget do not have technical backgrounds. Scientists and engineers are responsible for educating these committed people by linking technical merits to health, education, jobs, the environment, national security or economic stability. Using this approach ensures a captive audience." In April, Kirkpatrick began a one-year leave of absence from her job in New Mexico to serve as a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology. Kirkpatrick's office helps to shape federal policies for harnessing technology to serve national goals, she says. Some of the issues she is responsible for in her position include: transportation research and the next generation of cars; biotechnology; marine technology; environmental industrial initiatives; and eldercare technology to improve the lives of older Americans. Although Kirkpatrick has always been interested in science, her interest in science and economic policy did not begin until she was a graduate student at Northwestern University in Chicago.While she was working as a graduate fellow at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, she was first exposed to ways technical information was transferred from laboratories to the marketplace. At the same time, her late husband, Darrel E. Kilius, was diagnosed with cancer, which led Kirkpatrick to consider the impact of scientific discovery on the medical world. "These two major life experiences prompted me to think about a different way I could use my technical background;' she says."I began looking at the role scientists and engineers play in communicating their work to the public. I realized they were doing ... a poor job." She decided to devote her career to changing that. In 1995 Kirkpatrick was selected to participate in a congressional fellowship program operated by the American Association for the Advancement of BY JESSICA RoNKY HADDAD,AW'93
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Kimberly Corbin Aviles, W, is an owner in the law firm of Corbin, Schaffer, Wilsman and Aviles in Severna Park, Md. She concentrates in estate planning and estate administration. She and her husband, Dinoel, have a son, Thomas, I. Ronan W. Gannon, R, of Kennett Square, Pa., joined Wyeth Ayerst Laboratories as a product director. He is responsible for five vaccines, including a new viral vaccine for infants. He and his wife, Lathie, enjoy their three children, Ross, Clay and Grace; two terriers; and their rural home, built in the 1800s. Ernestine Belton Harris, C,
works as a business opportunity specialist at the Small Business Administration in Richmond. Bradford A.Johnson, R, of Greenville, S.C., works as a commercial real estate broker for Bradford & Associates Inc. Tom Louthan, L, received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, which is given to Eagle Scouts who , "after 25 years, have distinguished themselves in their work and who have shared their talents with their community on a voluntary basis." The award was presented during the dedication of the Shenandoah Area Council Scout Museum and Training Center. He is a substitt1te judge in the 26th Judicial District of Virginia and was one of six in the history of Winchester Scouts to receive the honor. George E. Moore III, GB, joined Guaranty Bank in Charlottesville, Va. , as vice president of construction lending. He was formerly with Signet Bank. Katherine Barringer Seaman, B,
of Trenton, N.J., works as accounting manager at Jamieson, Moore, Peskin & Spicer. She and her husband both passed their licensing exams for the professional engineer designation. Michael D. Ward, L, is president of the Virginia Society of Association Executives. He works at the Virginia Petroleum Council in Richmond. Edward S. Whitlock III, Rand L'87, of Richmond, was named treasurer of the Henrico County Bar Association.
Renee Reuschling Brooks, B,
opened her own law practice in October 1996. She and her husband, Will, live with their sons, Christopher Ford, 7, and Stephen Daniel, 3, in Glen Allen, Va. Michael]. Gardner, R, of Wellesley, Mass. , works as a regional sales manager at Van Melle Inc. in Boston. He is also a partner in American Specialty Confections.
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teaches mathematics at Goochland High School. He and his wife, Teresa, have two sons, Freddy, 3, and Charles, 1. Steve Henderson, R, of Richmond, was promoted to senior vice president of Wheat First Butcher Singer's mentor active fixed income division. Randall K. Horne, B, of Glen Allen, Va. , is the owner/broker of Horne & Associates Realty Inc. , a full-service real estate firm with 20 agents. He also owns the Henrico Theatre, a first-run movie theatre in eastern Henrico County. Donna DiServio Lange, L, of Richmond, was promoted to vice president, professional services division, at the Reciprocal Group. Charles Koones, R, associate publisher of Variety and Daily Variety, has also become U.S. publishing director. His new responsibilities include oversight of Variety's domestic business operations, sales and marketing. He has been with Variety since 1990, when he worked as an advertising account executive in New York. In 1994, he moved to Los Angeles to assume the role of director of marketing and special projects. Littleton Maxwell, GB, director of UR's business information center, was elected secretary of the Virginia chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Patricia A.L. Nunley, L, of Richmond, was named assistant counsel with the Federal Reserve Bank. David K. Quisenberry, R, and his family moved to Dusseldorf, Germany, in September 1997. He is co-owner of a European travel company. His wife, Margy, is manager of Gap Inc. for Germany. They have a son, Scott, 2 1/2. Bennett Cave Rich, W, is the innkeeper of the Inn Uptown in Charlotte, N.C. She and her husband, Stephen, have a son, Marshall, I. Kathleen Gerish Rieckert, B, of Fairfield, N.J., works as vice president ofJay Gerish Co. Her husband, Phil, works at the 1\vin Oaks Tennis & Fitness Center. They have two children, Krista, I0, and Michael, 7 1/2. David B. Robinson, B, opened a second office for his CPA and consulting firm in downtown Richmond. The other office is in historic Ivymont Manor House in Midlothian, Va. Dr. Michael A. Rossetti, R,
opened a new dental office in Richmond's West End.
Kirsten Richter Brown, B, of
Boothwyn, Pa., works for Hallmark Cards as a retail sales trainer in the Philadelphia/New Jersey district. Kelly Ann Cassidy, W, enjoyed a two-month trip around the world. She moved to Boston last year and continues as a program manager at Electronic Data Systems, where she has worked 12 years. Larry Fells, R, of Glen Allen, Va. , was elected to the board of directors of the Children's Health Involving Parents of Greater Richmond. Malia O'Connell Flatt, W, a major in the U.S. Army Reserves, serves as the team chief of a military police evaluation team. She also works part time for O'Connell & Associates, a consulting firm in Williamsburg, Va. She will be a second-year student at the T.C. Williams School of Law this fall. She and her husband, Neal, a Chesterfield County police officer, have two sons, Corey, 9, and Ian, 7, and a daughter,Jesse, 4. Michael A. Fleming, R, of Loudon, Tenn., has served as vice president of Lamar Outdoor Advertising since 1995. Under his leadership, the operations has earned the Public Affairs Plant of the Year designation for the past two years. He and his wife, Lynne Mason Fleming, W'87, have two sons, Andrew, 6 1/2, and Christopher, 3 1/2. Pamela A. Fornero, B, graduated from Columbia U. in August 1996 with an MBA. She was promoted to partner at Coopers & Lybrand in October 1997. She and her husband, Robert Kulesh, live in New York City. Terry Lynn Granger-Duby, W,
continues as a special agent with the FBI and investigates crimes against children. She and her husband, James, live in Falls Church, Va. Richard H. Hardy Jr., B, of Richmond, works as a senior manager, technology services, at McGladrey & Pullen. Alyson Hendricks Honrath, W, a state trooper in New Jersey, transferred to the research and analysis unit of the field operations section. She lives in Freehold, N.J. Scott Hudgins, R, ofWinstonSalem, N.C., joined Wake Forest U. as director of student recruitment. He was formerly at Emory U., where he directed Baptist studies at the Candler School of Theology. Robert S. "Jeff' Jeffries, B,
works as a sales manager at Castle Building Products in North White Plains, N.Y. He and his 1vife, Cindy, and their daughter, Eve, live in Ridgefield, Conn. Anthony C.JonesJr., B, of Hoboken, N.J. , was promoted to vice president and assistant treasurer at Merrill Lynch in New
York City. He plans to graduate 1vith his MBA from Baruch College this summer. Alice Bush Kachejian, B, of Springfield, Va., is sales manager of HealthCare Everywhere Inc. in Alexandria, Va. Steven]. Kaufman, B, moved from the Midwest to Parsippany, N.J.
Michael Hensley, R'87, a software engineer for NASA, works on a joint project with the Japanese Space Agency to study rainfall in the earth 's tropical regions. Tracy King, W, is the manager of
promotions and programs for Colonial Williamsburg. Carrie Knebel, W, of Alexandria, Va. , earned a master's degree in art therapy from George Washington U. It is her second master's degree. Scott Mainwaring, R, of Glen Allen, Va., was promoted to vice president in the national direct sales department at NationsBank. Craig P. Manchester, B, of Midlothian, Va., works as a financial analyst at Philip Morris USA. He has a daughter, Berkley, 2, and a son, Brayden, 4. Richard Tyler McGrath, L, was named president of the Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center at Richmond Inc. for 1998. Courtney Stone Moses, W, of Mechanicsville, Va., was promoted to consultant, product support manager, at Shaw Systems Associates Inc. Stewart G. Nunn, B, works as territory sales manager at Kasco Corp. He and his wife, Denise, live in Richmond. He has a son, Adan1, 7, from a previous marriage. Paul]. Stone, R, joined Thomas Rutherfoord Inc. in Richmond as a consultant. He formerly was with Seabury and Smith. Mark H. Sylvester, R, and his family moved to Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., where he works as Western region sales manager for 13 states for TGC Inc. He and his wife, Diane, have three children: Brian, 8; Kelly, 5; and Matt, 2. AlanJ. Zakin, R, has his own public relations firm , Alan Zakin Associates, in Livingston, N.J. His firm specializes in marketing, fund raising and press. He also passed the New Jersey bar exam in
December 1997 and joined a law firm. He and his wife, Barbara, live in New York City.
Pamela Comer Edgerton, W, a former biology teacher for Hopewell, Va., Public Schools, teaches at the Governor's School for International Studies. Paul D. Georgiadis, L, an attorney in Richmond, was named president-elect of the Henrico County Bar Association. Dr. S. Duke Herrell, R, moved from Chicago to Mount Pleasant, S.C., where he joined the faculty of the Medical U. of South Carolina's department of urology as an assistant professor of urology. He is director of the division on endourology, urologic laparoscopy and kidney stone disease. He and his wife, Linda, enjoy the Charleston, S.C., area. Sue Ann Keleher Kane, W,
and her husband,John, moved from Seattle to Wilmington, Del. in July 1997. They have a daughter, Maggie, who was born in August 1997. Marsha Landess, W, of Richmond, was named WRXIJ WRVQ general sales manager. She has been with the radio station for 10 years. W. Clark McGhee, B, was promoted to senior vice president, manager of student lending business at Crestar in Richmond. Kevin L. Nigro, R, was promoted to director of packaging operations of Accupac Inc. in Mainland, Pa. He was selected to head the company's expansion efforts to the United Kingdom. He and his wife, Eileen Heck Nigro, W, planned to move to England in April 1998. Susan E. Parcell, W, works at Prudential Securities in Tinton Falls, N.J. She and her husband,James Gerard, live in Belmar, N.J. Peter N. Pastore Jr., GB, of Richmond, is a trustee of the Virginia chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Kathie Horton Sarrett, W, of Baltimore, teaches part time in the Catholic school system. She has three sons. Michael S. Simpson, B, was promoted to major in the U.S. Army. He works as an intelligence crisis operations officer and was selected to attend Command and General Staff College. He and his wife, Debra, live in Springfield, Va., with their daughter, Victoria Nicole, born Oct. 24, 1997. Stephen W. Story, C, of Richmond, was elected treasurer of the Virginia Motorcoach Association and to the boards of the International Motorcoach Network and the American Bus Association. He is president of James River Bus Lines.
Marlene Eckardt Waller, B, of Gilbertsville, Pa., left her job with Nabisco in April 1997 to be a full time mom. Her husband, Gregg, is a senior account manager with GE CapitaVIT Solutions. Peg McGovern Zelkowitz, W, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was promoted to underwriting manager at Reliance National Insurance Co. She and her husband,Jeff, have a daughter, Zoe Alexandra, I.
Or. Beryl Sandler Brown, W, of Norfolk, Va., joined Surgical Care Inc. as a partner. She is board certified in general surge1y, breast surgery and laproscopic surge,y. Pamela Gohn Cassidy, W, works as a teacher at Cass Junior High School in Darien, Ill. She and her husband, Mark, live in Chicago. James P. Dugan, B, works as assistant vice president at the CIT Group in Livingston , N.J. He mid his wife, Jackie, have a son,John Vincent, born Aug. 4, 1997. Margaret Gehret Erskine, B, of Wilmington, Del. , enjoys being a stay-at-home mom to Meredith , 2 1/2, and Jake, I. Michael Hensley, R, of Arlington , Va., returned to NASA, where he works as a senior software engineer for Mentor Technologies Inc. on a joint project with the Japanese Space Agency to study rainfall in the earth 's tropical regions. Nancy Blair Lank, C, works as a part-time sales associate at BaySt. Galle,y & D:~uini Galle,y in Beaufo11, S.C. She also serves as publicity chairman for the 1998 spring tour of plantation homes for St. Helena's Episcopal Church. Jennifer Lynch, W, works as director of communications in the development office at St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Bethesda, Md. She is responsible for public relations; editing and designing all school publications; and redesigning and maintaining the school's Web site. She also has a home desktop publishing business. Cesar Madarang, B, works as a technology consultant with Fannie Mae in Philadelphia. John M. Matson, B, of West Chester, Pa. , was promoted to senior vice president/equity trading-sales at Janney Montgomery Scott Inc. in Philadelphia. He and his wife, Katherine Paulsell Matson, W, have two children, Jack, 4, and Andy, 2. Jeffrey W. Miller, R, earned the Chartered Life Underwriter mid Charter Financial Consultant designations from the American Society of CLU & ChFC through the American College in Btyn Mawr, Pa. He works for Northwestern Mutual Insurance Corp. in Richmond.
RECENT ALUMNI Johnson, who oversees group therapy sessions, says her role is "to make sure the community as a whole is healthy." She likes to say that she "facilitates change but is not the Julie Myers Johnson tries not to bring agent of change." her work home. One of three clinical In any given day,Johnson deals social workers assigned to the with criminal behavior, drug Substance Abuse Therapeutic addiction, mental illness, abusive Community program at the Virginia relationships , HIV and more . Correctional Center for Women in Although burnout is high in her Goochland County,Johnson uses her / field ,Johnson says she has been daily 40-minute commute to her able to stay interested and Bon Air home to "clear [her] head." energized because the program is It may not always be easy, but it is \ constantly evolving. something she has learned to do after "Some of them make it," says JULIE .MYERS JOHNSON seven years of working in the criminal Johnson, who has learned to measure justice system. success in levels, "but I don't kid Johnson, W'9 l, came to the myself to think that everyone will." University from a northern suburb of Baltimore because Johnson works with women from all age and social she "just liked the way [the campus] felt." As a journalism backgrounds, but she says she is beginning to see a major, she was encouraged by her professors, Mike Spear rise in the number of younger women entering the and Steve Nash, to develop an area of specialty in which program. She credits this change to crack cocaine to concentrate her writing. She chose criminal justice, which-unlike alcohol, heroin or pill addictions-has which became her second major, because she knew she immediate, destructive consequences and forces would always have something to write about. During her years at UR,Johnson sharpened her writing addicts to hit bottom much faster.Whatever the issue, Johnson believes that all participants can learn from skills by serving as the managing editor and national news editor of The Collegian. She developed her criminal each other. The drug treatment program has been so justice abilities as a research intern at the City of successful that by early 1999 its size will double. As a Richmond's Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court in state employee,Johnson is pleased with the support Gilpin Court. She also was a member of Golden Key and funding that the treatment program is receiving National Honor Society, the Society for Collegiate from Virginia Gov.Jim Gilmore.While she says she Journalists and the pre-law society, Phi Alpha Delta. initially was "angered" by former Gov. George Allen 's Although she considered attending law school, by the no-parole policy, she now believes that this policy, time she graduated Johnson was eager to enter the combined with increased funding of substance abuse workforce. programs, is providing inmates the time they need Wanting to stay in Richmond, she accepted an for rehabilitation. internship with the Department of Criminal Justice The program's expansion also will bring new Services' victims' services section, where she combined opportunities for Johnson. She says she hopes to move her journalism and criminal justice talents preparing into a supervisory role but acknowledges that she brochures, charting statistics and planning the does not plan to work in corrections and counseling department's annual conference. Nine months later she all her life. was hired as a quality assurance technician for the "You have to have thick skin to work in correcVirginia Parole Board, where she worked for 18 months tions;' she says,"because of the stories you hear." preparing and processing parole cases. Johnson's long-range goals include returning to In 1993,Johnson was hired by her current employer as school for her MBA and helping her husband, ScQtt, a corrections institution rehabilitation counselor. She manage his construction business. An avid gardener began working with the Substance Abuse Therapeutic and animal lover,Johnson's "family"includes two dogs, Community program, an 18-month intensive drug two birds and three cats, two of which she rescued treatment program, and received training and financial support from the Department of Corrections to become a from the correctional center. Her dream job would be certified substance abuse counselor. During that time, she to own a greenhouse and breed and train dogs, but for now, she is happy where she is. also wrote a 102-page manual for the treatment program Although she does not return to campus often, she and assisted with the restructuring of the 60-bed continues to be thankful for the education she residential program. received at the University. In addition to the benefits In her current position,Johnson has a 20-inmate of small class size and computer training,Johnson caseload. Unlike traditional 28-day treatment programs, cites Spear and sociology professor Dr.Joan Neff as the therapeutic community model allows the inmates to "making a great impact on where I am today." ij help each other by living and recovering together.
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Sean E. Neary, B, of Glen Allen, Va. , passed Level llI of the Chartered Financial Analyst exam. Last December, he started a new job with NationsBank as vice president in the private investment group . Elizabeth Kent Reams, W, of Richmond, was promoted to director of development at the Arthritis Foundation. She was selected as one of Richmond's "Top 40 under 40" sponsored by Inside Business magazine and area corporations. Deanna C. Sampson, L, of Richmond, is executive director of Williamsburg Land Conservancy. She fo rmerlywas program director of the Virginia Conservation Network. NoraJ. Smith, W, of Lexington, S.C., was elected vice president of the South Carolina Midlands Healthcare Executives Group and secretaryand treasurer of the South Carolina affiliate of the An1erican Geriatrics Society. She works as planning and development coordinator fo r Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia, S.C. Wilmer N. Stoneman III, B, was promoted to senior assistant director of public affairs with the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation in Richmond. G. Scott ThorbahnJr., R, of West Chester, Pa., works in his family business of outdoor advertising, Interstate Sheller-All. He has one son, Stephen. Gay Graham Wagner, W, works as an associate vice president in retirement plan services at B. T. Alex Brown in Baltimore. She and her husband, Ned, have two children, Gordon, 3, and Nicole, born Aug. 27, 1997. Kenneth W. Wren Jr., B, of Portsmouth , Va. , opened a Scott & Stringfellow branch in Chesapeake, Va. , with his fath er, Ken Wren Sr., 8'63. Hugh 0. Zanger Jr. , B, moved from Richmond to Guttenberg, NJ , where he is director of sales for Prudenthu Healthcare-New Jersey.
,gg John R. Beach, R, of New Church, Va. , works as credit manager at Lankford Sysco Food Services. Willian1J . Benos, L, of Midlothian , Va., was elected a trustee of the Virginia chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Virginia Allen Bussey, W, of Petersburg, Va., and her husband work for Prince George County Schools. Theyenjoytraveling during the summers. Christopher R. Clapper, R, of Midlothian, Va. , works as a special agent fo r the U.S. Secret Service. He was formerlywith the Richmond Police Department fo r nine years, the hL5l lwo years as sergeant.
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Amy Roach Clayton, W, of Exton, Pa. , joined the real estate firm off ox &Roach. She was formerlydevelopment coordinator for the Roach Wheeler/Better Homes &Gardens firm , which was founded byher grandfather. Dr. Winston M. Gouldin, R, of Richmond, graduated from MCV as a doctor of pharmacy in May. Mandy Hamner-Ford, B, of Midlothian, Va., was elected a trustee of the Virginia chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Mark Sweeney, R'90, was named 1997 Operator of the Yearby Shoney's Inc. He owns several Captain D's franchises in Virginia. Don Hobart, B, of Glen Allen, Va. , was promoted to associate vice president at Wheat First Butcher Singer. Sylvia Infante Lecky, W, and her husband, Steve, live in Middletown, Conn. She works as an actuary with Aetna U.S. Healthcare Insurance. She went toJapan for a second time to visit her brother, AndyInfante, R'92, who works there. Thomas E. 'Tucker" Perkins Jr., GB, of Richmond, was appointed vice president of administration and business development with Columbia Propane. Walter A. Staclder, B, works as a research analyst at Ernst &Young in New York City. Katherine W. Weiss, W, moved to San Francisco, where she works for Cook Express, an Internet marketplace. She graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in March 1997. Dawn Worden, W, of Norcross, Ga. , joined the law fi rm of Pendergast &Associates in October 1997. She practices real estate law and related areas.
David R. Balch Jr., R, of Midlothian , Va. , is the art director at Douglas MurphyCommunications, a magazine publisher in Richmond. He and his wife, Lucy, have two children, Logan, 3, and Zoe, I. Former Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, H, was elected vice president of the Virginia Historic:u Society board.
Mary Barham, B, of Powhatan, Va., opened Barham Marketing Services, which provides marketing and office-support services for real estate professionals. Jenita Taylor Beach, B, received her MBA in May 1996 from Salisbury State U. She was promoted to assistant vice president at Farmers &Merchants Bank. She and her husband, John Beach, R'88, live in NewChurch, Va. , with their daughter, Jacie Lyn, born Oct. 17, 1997. Lisa Ann Toomey Breckenridge, W, joined American Express in New York City as manager of account development. She and her husband, Stephen, have a daughter, Amelia Elizabeth, 2. Dr. D. Christopher Caldwell, R, works as chief resident at Georgetown U. Medical Center and planned to relocate in July 1998 to Charlottesville, Va., where he will be a fellow in interventional radiology/ endovascular surgery at the U. of Virginia Hospital. His wife, Elizabeth, is an advertising executive. Eric D. English, R, works as a sergeant with the Richmond police department and is assigned to their training academy. Claudia T. Farr, L, of Powhatan, Va., was named executive vice president of the board of directors of the Children's Home Society of Virginia. Dr. Craig H. Gosdin, R, practices pediatrics as an attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Alabama/ U. of Alabama at Birmingham. David W. Juros, B, works at American Express as a product manager for a new marketing program. He and his wife, Margot HoffmanJuros, W, live in Irvington, N.Y. Robert P. KondrasJr., R, of Terre Haute, Ind., was made a partner in the law firm ofHunt, Hassler &Lorenz. Beth Inge Neary, W, and her husband Sean Neary, 8'87, moved to Norfolk, Va. , with their son, Colin, I. Beth is a physical therapist. Joyce E. Peters, GB, of Arlington, Va., works as executive assistant and counsel to the assistant attorney general for legislative affairs in the U.S. Department ofJustice in Washington , D.C. Karen Wimmer Woods, B, works as director of public relations at St. Louis Coke &Foundry Supply Co. She and her husband, Robert Woods, B, have two sons, Parker, 3, and Nicholas Elliot, born Nov. 16, 1997. Robert Woods, B, is president of St. Louis Coke &Foundry SupplyCo. Sarah Fussell Younger, W, of Norfolk, Va., is a second-year internal medicine resident.
George W. Alber III, R, works as a territory representative for Janssen Pharmaceutica and lives in Summit, NJ Laura L. Allen, 8, moved to Breckenridge, Colo., where she has been enjoying "ski bumming" before entering graduate school. She was formerlyan account manager with a market research firm in Washington, D.C. June Aigner Beck, B, of Mechanicsville, Va. , works as manager of rebates at Owens & Minor, a medical and surgical supplydistribution company. Janine Cauvin Chilson, B, of Morristown, NJ , works as an account manager at Procter &Gamble. Teresa Comunale Cinnamond, W, and her husband,Jim, bought a house in Huntington, N.Y. , where they live with their dog, Miles. She practices insurance law in the New York City firm of Morrison , Mahoney &Miller. Michael Dimitriou, GB, of Richmond, was named vice president of sales and marketing at Aquasource North America. Sibylle M. Gesswein, W, moved from Washington , D.C., to New York City, where she is regional manager, Europe, for World Com International. Otha Jones, B, of Richmond, was promoted to associate vice president at Wheat First Butcher Singer. James 8. Kane, B, of Cos Cob, Conn., transferred to the structured finance division at BT Alex. Brown to sell private-placement debt and equity securities. Chris Karkenny, B, left QuarterDeck Corp. as acting CFO to pursue an acting career. He lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Dr. William Townes Lea III , R, of Burke, Va., practices familyand cosmetic dentistry. Mary S. Marinaccio, GB, moved from Milan, Italy, to West Haven, Conn., as senior marketing manager for the CNS division of Bayer Corp. She spent three years in Italy as Bayer's senior product manager, anti-infectives. Joseph Miller, R, of Tarrytown, N.Y., works as an investment consultant for Citicorp Investment Services.
Daniel W. Redfield Jr., R, is a captain and commands a special forces "A" detachment at Fort Bragg, N.C. His wife, Carol Ann, an ROTC instructor at NCState U. , lives in Sanford, N.C. Mark Ian Schwartz, R, of Olympia, Wash. , works as a free-lance writer and teaches creative writing. Melanie Schmidt Smith, 8, of Cape May Court House, NJ , works as an independent contractor in computer programming and software development. She and her husband, Craig, have two sons, Craig, 3, and Corey, born Jan. 3, 1998. Mark Sweeney, R, of Rocky Mount, Va., was named 1997 Operator of the Year byShoney's Inc. He owns several Captain D's franchises in Virginia. Jennifer Allan Tallini, W, works as personnel representative at ARCOToys Inc., a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. She and her husband, Marco, a financial analyst, live in Huntington, N.Y.
AmandaJohnston Barden, B, opened a Virginia operation for the Charlotte-based finance company, Springs Leasing Corp. She and her husband,James, live in ManakinSabot, Va. , with their two dogs. Ellen Bradley, W, was elected treasurer of the Richmond chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. She is the assistant director of publications at UR. Kristin Anderson Canty, W, of Suffern , N.Y., planned to graduate from Rutgers Law-Newark this past May. She and her husband,John, have a daughter, Alexandra, born Oct. 20, 1997. Andrew T. Davis, B, works as vice president of First Management Services Inc. in Nashville. He talked to Arturo Saldane Fuentes, B, who lives in Panama and works for Chase Manhattan. Dr. Danna Doyle, W, is a secondyear resident of pediatrics and medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Northampton, Mass. In her spare time she enjoys rock climbing and was planning a vacation to Joshua Tree last March. She passed her third level of basic testing of the U.S. Figure Skating Association. Kristen K. Gedeon, B, works as assistant to international operations for Ben &Jerry's Homemade Inc. in South Burlington, Vt. Brian]. Grace, B, ofBethesda, Md., was promoted to retail logistics coordinator at Philip Morris USA and will relocate to Hoboken, NJ
Jeffrey P. Hamm, R, has been working at C.H. Robinson Worldwide as a broker for seven years. Dr. Brian T. Hauser, R, of Pittsburgh, graduated in December 1996 from the U. of Florida with a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry. He works as a research chemist with PPG Industries. His wife, Robin, is a pediatrician. Timothy P. Holtz, R, was profiled in theRichmondTimes-Dispatch on Jan. 20, 1998, as the director of the Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity. Eileen Y. Howard, C, of Saluda, Va., works as the general registrar of Middlesex County, a position she has held since June 1995. Joli Hurst-Battle, W, ofRoanoke, Va., was promoted to team manager in First Union·s credit card call center. She manages a team of 18 credit card representatives. Mosa P. Kaleel, R, works as a director of public access television for Century Communications in Sherman Oaks, Calif. David). Kendall, B, of New York, N.Y. , is in his fourth year as an associate with the firm of Simpson Thacker & Bartlett. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions. Keith B. Marcus, L, of Richmond, joined the law firm of Bremner, Janus & Cook He practices criminal law and personal injury law. Brian P. Stevens, B, of Richmond, was promoted to a senior manager at Capital One. Eric L. Strauch, R, works as a physician assistant at the department of emergency medicine at Fairfax Hospital. He and his wife, Kim Victoria Strauch, W, enjoy living in Old Town, Alexandria. Tracy Stefanko Tinnemeyer, W, graduated from the U. of Pittsburgh School of Law. She joined the law firm of Goehring, Rutter & Boehm in Pittsburgh and lives in Mount Lebanon, Pa., with her husband,James.
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From psych major to opera singer
When the beat of jazz swung Keith Phares to choose the University of Richmond for his college education, he had no clue to the way he would be improvising his career choice. "My whole family is musical;' says Phares,AR'96, whose parents are transplants from New Jersey to Hilton Head, S.C. "My older brother, Glen [R'88], who preceded me at Richmond, was a trumpet player. I played trumpet, too. My model is the jazz great Miles Davis." "I knew Richmond had [associate professor of music Dr.] Mike Davison, with his great jazz experience. I thought that was where I should be, but just to give myself a more solid base for a career, I majored in psychology." So, two years after graduation, what is Phares doing singing with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and preparing for a career that he hopes will lead him back to the Metropolitan Opera-where he's already sung this spring? Phares had discovered he had a strong baritone voice in high school when he won the role of the Frenchman Emile DeBeque in South Pacific. But the pull of all that jazz was stronger and he didn't spend much time with voice until his junior year at UR, when assistant professor of music Dr.Jennifer Cable encouraged him to work on his vocal training. After graduation in 1996, he went on to graduate vocal work at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He made his Metropolitan Opera stage debut this April when he won the New England Region Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, then went on to become one of 10 winners in the national Met competition. Out of the 10 winners, Phares was the second youngest. Matthew D. Alpert, B, is assistant "Keith has it all," says Cable, who was in New York to regional manager of Quick & Reilly hear him. "He's tall and handsome and looked dashing Inc. in New York City. Daniel E. Bennett, R, lives in Juno on the stage at the Met. He has been a joy to work with Beach, Fla., where he attends and I can see a very bright future for him. He has what Florida Atlantic U. and is studying it takes-talent, commitment, drive and intelligence." for his certification to teach high In St. Louis from April to June, Phares sang in school Spanish. He continues to Gounod's Faust, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, and race bicycles and was the Florida state champion in 1997. Janacek's Katya Kabonova . E. Charles Blottner Jr., B, of Then, it was home to Hilton Head, preparing a recital Richmond, joined Community there for August on a different note: Gershwin, Cole Health Associates Physician Porter, Copland. He has returned once to sing at UR-in Organization as director of network development and Handel's Messiah in December 1996, when he sang provider relations. bass with his teacher,Jennifer Cable, as the soprano.
In the fall, Phares will study in the Opera Center at Juilliard, where he would continue to work with Richard Hughes, his mentor at the New England Conservatory. For all that his career is rapidly taking off, Phares is learning to pace himself."A young voice should not be pushed too fast," he notes. "I lean to be! canto operas and Mozart. I don't want to sing anything too heavy too soon. It hurt when Marilyn Horne offered me the baritone role in The Magic Flute in Santa Barbara and I turned it down because I knew I needed a break." Phares' favorite opera singer is an old-timer, Robert Merrill. "If I had a choice of one role to sing," he says,"it would be the title role in Rigoletto." Unlike some opera singers who hone their talent in Europe before becoming known in this country-Thomas Moser, for one, the Richmonder who is the son of Louise Hall Moser,W' 42-Phares would like to make his name in this country. He aims high: the Met, of course. Phares acknowledges his career path has been unusual. "I didn't sing at all in high school until we moved to Hilton Head," he says. "When I got the lead in South Pacific, I became interested in theatre. During the summer of my senior year, we did Secret Garden with both amateur and professional performers and then I got to study with Dr. Cable at UR. "When I reached Richmond, I knew I enjoyed trumpet but doubted that I was good enough to make a career of it. Psychology seemed a more practical major. It was interesting to me but I really didn't have a passion for it. I do have a passion for singing." Dr. Michael Davison, who has nurtured the University's jazz program for the past dozen years, says,"I couldn't believe it when I heard Keith on the trumpet. I thought it was Miles Davis. In terms of improvisation, Keith is one of the two best students I have had. But there is more than that that will make Keith succeed. It is his persona, which is larger than his music. He has that rare quality of knowing how to connect with the audience." The shift from jazz to opera? "I had a handle on the jazz esthetic," Phares observes,"so I had to artistically retrain myself. I couldn't just wing it any more." •
Marc Cram, B, earned his Certified Financial Planner designation in December 1997. He is a stockbroker with Davenport & Co. in Richmond.
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Robert G. Crystal Ill, R, of Richmond, was promoted to associate vice president at Wheat First Butcher Singer. Kristine Dalaker, Wand L'97, was named an associate with the Richmond law firm of Mezzullo & McCandLish. She practices in the real estate section of the firm 's corporate department. Dean D. DeGood, R, Lives in Amsterdam and continues to work for Domino's Pizza International. He travels throughout Europe, Northern Africa, the Middle East and India as a consultant in suppLier development, purchasing and distribution. Richard K. Dineen, R, of Clinton, N.J., works as an operations manager at DSC Logistics. He and his wife, Sherry Creeger Dineen, W, bought their first home in Clinton, N.J. Rebecca A. Fewkes, W, is a law student at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She works as a mediator and trainer at Community Boards of San Francisco and oversees neighborhood dispute resolution hearings. Jeffrey S. Fowler, R, of Richmond, works as a human resources representative for the Virginia Department ofTranspot1ation. Sean D. Gavaghan, R, moved to West Salem, Wis. , where he is a pharmacy salesman. Dr. Amy L. Kristof-Brown, W, received her Ph.D. in organizational behavior and human resource management from the U. of Maryland in December 1997. She works as an assistant professor at the U. of Iowa College of Business in Iowa City. Kim A. Morreale-Okula, W, of East Moriches, N.Y., teaches kindergarten for the Connetquot, N.Y., Public Schools. Steven T. Rhoads, B, of Oconomowoc, Wis. , was named assistmll dean of admission at Ripon College in Ripon , Wis. I-le was formerly coordinator of transfer services at Kankakee Community College in Kankakee, Ill. I-le received his master's degree in sport management from Western llLinois U. Doug Sandler, B, was named a vice president at Wheat First Butcher Singer in Richmond. He was formerly a research analyst in investment strategy. Brooks M. Smith, R, of Richmond, joined the law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe as an associate with a concentration in environmental law and land use. Jane M. Walther, W, has been teaching French for two years at the CommunitySchool in Sun V;uley, Idal10.
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Xiaopin Wang, G, transferred to Roche Pharmaceutical's China Investment as treasurer in August 1997. She and her husband, GeFei , Live in Shanghai. Patricia Hughes Whittemore, W, works as a consultant at SAl Consulting in New York City. K. Dorinda Marks Williams, W, graduated from the George Washington U. School of PubLic Health and Health Sciences with a master's degree in pubLic health and a concentration in maternal and child health. She works for the Whitman-W;~ker Clinic at the Max Robinson Center in Washington, D.C. She and her husband, Eric, live in Accokeek, Md. Scott A. Willis, B, is branch manager at Ted Lansing Corp. in Charleston, S.C.
'93 Todd P. Reiger, BR, received his MBA from Wake Forest U. Babcock Graduate School of Management and joined Deloitte & Touche in Atlanta. James A. Bentley 111, AR, of Dallas, works at Human Resource Solutions, where he recruits midto senior-level information technology professionals. Jo Ann Cizek, BW, joined Life of Virginia in Richmond as a variable speciaList. Marnie L. Clough, AW, of Leesburg, Va., teaches Spanish at Loudoun County High School. She ;~so works as head coach of girls' track and field and the assistant cross count,y coach. Kimberly J. Brown, AW, teaches third grade at Blessed SacramentHuguenot in Powhatan, Va., and at the Sylvan Learning Center. She lives in Richmond with Claudia Saladino, AW, who teaches fourth grade in Chesterfield County. Jennifer Chropuvka-Martin, AW, works iL, a real estate analyst for Intel Corp. in Chandler, Ariz. She received her MBA from American U. in the summer of 1996. Jean Frank, AW, Lives outside of St. Louis and is a dental student at Southern Illinois U. She plans to graduate in June 1998. Bradford P. Grant, BR, with the Vanguard Group of Investment Companies, was nominated to lead a project team responsible for the redesign of a computer system used by his company's entire 40 I (k) participant sen•ices department. He Lives in Malvern , Pa. Raymond B. Hindle, AR, of Brookline, Mass., joined Prince Spo11s Group and Prince Golf as a s;ues representative. His territo,y covers New England. Paul F. Hunter, BR, moved to St. Petersburg, Fla., where he works as a trader, portfolio management, for Eagle Asset Management.
William T.Johnson, AR, was promoted to captain in the U.S. Army and serves as a general's aidede-camp in the First Caval1y Division, Fort Hood, Texas. He is assigned to an advanced course at Fort Benning, Ga. , where he will serve 12 months before moving to Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Kristin A. Klein, AW, of Johnstown , Pa. , graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and works as a physician assistant at the Crichton Center for Advanced Rehabilitation.
Bessie E. Whitlock, AW'95, worked as a Grand Canyon river guide last summer. She is a graduate student in recreation administration at Georgia Southern U. William P. Knight Ill, AR, moved to Orlando, Fla. , and works for Walt Disney World Co. in the entertainment division at Epcot. W. Elisabeth Kristiansen, AW, of New Canaan, Conn., was promoted to business operations support manager for Xerox Business Services in their Latin American clivision. Scott C. McCandless, AR, of New York City, graduated from Emmy U. School of Law in May 1997, where he served as president of the student bar association. He received the dean 's distinguished service award and the Order of Advocates Award. He works for a federal judge at the Court of lnternatiorntl Trade. Anne D. McDougall, L, of Glen Allen, Va. , was promoted to senior vice president, business developmcnt, with the Reciproc;u Group. John S. McGough, GB, of Richmond, works as financial director of the emerging markets group at Reynolds Metals Co. Nichole F. McVeigh, AW, graduated in August 1997 from U. of Southern Mississippi with a master of arts degree in teaching languages. She works as an adjunct professor in VCU's English language program. Laura Smith Mozeleski, AW, of Fairfax, Va., earned a master's degree in internatiorntl affairs, Latin America, in December 1997 at the School of International Service at American U.
John B. Polhill Jr., AR, is working toward his Ph.D. in mathematics at U. Va. He and his wife, Katherine Devilbiss Polhill, AW'94, Live in Charlottesville, Va. Mario M. Ramos, AR, works as an associate at].P. Morgan Co. in New York City. Ronald N. Regnery, L, works as an associate with the Richmond law firm of Christian & Barton. He practices in the firm 's Litigation department and concentrates on employment law. He was formerly with the state attorney general. Larisa Sandford, AW, of Richmond, was named administrative assistant at Pamplin Park Civil War Site in Dinwiddie County, Va. Elizabeth Gleason Seeber, BW, of Mechanicsburg, Pa. , works as a finance team leader at Pinnacle Health System. Megan Taylor Shockley, AW, of 'Ji1cson, Ariz., passed her doctoral exams this past fall and is writing her Ph.D. dissertation in hist01y at the U. of Arizona, where she teaches classes in women's histo,y. In her spare time, she volunteers at the Humane Society, advises the Alpha Chi Omega chapter and participates in the National Organization for Women. Her husband,Jeff, is completing his MBA in finance. Margaret Smither, L, of Mechanicsville, Va., was named vice chair of the board of directors of Commonwealth CathoLic Charities. She works at Fort James Corp. Haywood A. Thornton, L, of Richmond, joined the law firm of Mays & Valentine. He practices general corporate law. Quentin van Marcke de Lummen, AR, in March 1997 was promoted to iL,sistmll vice president at Marsh & McLennan in New York City. He and his wife, Tracy, live in No,th Bergen, N.J. Eric C. Willis, AR, of Rockville, Md., passed the Maiyland bar exam and works as a law clerk to the Hon. Paul McGuckian in Montgomery County, Md.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary SYDNEY SMITH 2429 Bridgeview Lane Richmond, VA 23233 ssmith@richmond.edu Kerry Depew and Molly Delea McKeever were the co-chairs of our five-year reunion. By the time you read this it will be over, but they planned a weekend full of activities for us. In addition , Keny has a new job with Paine Webber, and Molly has survived her first year of law school at UR. Darren Ratcliffe and his wife have moved to Indiana, and he finished his four years with the Army. Todd Conklin received a promotion at Morgan Stanley
without even taking the graduate level courses that are usually required for that particular type of job switch. Carter Hansen is working for Capital One in Richmond. Paul Breme accepted a summer job in Atlanta, prior to his last year at William & Mary Law School. His wife, Amy Foley Breme, planned to join him in Atlanta after she finished teaching for the school year. Amy also works with Jim Popp, 8'92, as she oversees a WilLiamsburg franchise of his Richmond-based company, University Instructors. Kevin McNamara moved to Raleigh , N.C., with his company, Wallace Computer Systems. Amy Cross is in graduate school at NYU and is a resident assistant in a dormito1y right across from Wall Street. Aimee Bayle just started a new sales job in New York City with Bloomberg and spent two weeks training in Princeton, N.J. Kristen Greenwood Hebert and her husband, Kevin Hebert, 8'87, moved to Florida last fall , and she is teaching. Shannon Hynes is a nurse with a practice outside of Boston.Joe and Mary-Holland Wood Thompson have returned to Virginia after several years in Germany, where he was in the Army. Joe now works at UR in university computing, and MaryHolland is pursuing her master's degree in teaching. Gail Macinnes was in her final semester of graduate school this spring at the U. of Matyland, where she was working for her master's degree in social work. Grattan Smith is in sales for Physician Computer Network Inc. , and he was named among the top sales people for the company in I997. Andy Hunn returned to N011hern Virginia after spending a summer in Colorado and he started a new job at DIGEX as a program manager. Sue Kirchofer completed her two-year term in the Peace Corps last fall and planned to travel through Australia and Indonesia before returning to the States. Hilary Knox and Melissa Miscione Live in Richmond and are both advisers to the Delta Gamma chapter at UR. I-lila1y also serves on the Young Grad Program Steering Committee and helped with the class reunion. Krista Manheimer Lauer and her husband bought a house in Charlotte, N.C., where Krista works for Andersen Consulting. Man O'Connor is in the MBA program at the U. of Pennsylvania.
'94 Frank R. Allen, BR, works as a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond. Bradley T. Butkovich, AR, is finishing his second year in medical school at MCV. He and his wife, Deborah, an elementary school teacher, Live in Richmond. Brian P. Clifford, BR, works as a portfoLio manager at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Discover in New York City. April M. France, AW, Lives in Boulder, Colo., where she works as a speciaList in COBOL at PS Technology, which develops and maintains software for 15 major railroads in the United States and Canada. Amy Kahler Godwin, AW, Lives in Drexel Hill , Pa., with her husband, Alfred, who is an occupational therapist. She received her master's degree in physical therapy in May 1996 and works at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. Eleanor Beth Holt, AW, works as a primary family therapist at Brawner South Psychiatric Hospital in Atlanta. She earned her master's degree in social work at the U. of Georgia in June 1997. Martha S.Jordan, AW, is a fourthyear Ph.D. candidate in immunology at the U. of Pennsylvania. Clare Blackwood Lawson, BW, works as a claims adjuster at Safeco Insurance Co. She and her husband, Leif, Live in Richmond. Alissa Mancuso, AW, joined the Richmond law firn1 of Williams, Mullen, Christian &Dobbins as communications director and is in charge of pubLic relations, pubLications and media relations. She also serves as chairman of UR's Young Graduate Program Steering Committee and is a Westhampton class secreta,y for the University of
Richmond Magazine. Traci B. Mayer, BW, works as a chief accountant for the Humane Society of the United States in Gaithersburg, Md. James T. Monroe, AR, of Falls Church, Va. , was promoted to training manager of United Communications Systems in McLean, Va. He manages a staff of 30 technical trainers who travel globally to provide software instruction and support to the company's principal cLients. Sarah M. Nolan, AW, is pursuing her master's degree in international and intercultural management at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vt. William R. Phelps, AR, works as a producer for the 11 p.m. news at WWBT-Channel 12 in Richmond. Cristina M. Romano, AW, is completing her second year of the MBA program at the U. ofTexas at Austin. She plans to return to South Florida.
Robin A. Sanford, GB, works as manager, financial accounting, at Universal Leaf Tobacco Co. Inc. in Richmond. Amy Scherer, GB, was named a vice president at Wheat First Butcher Singer in Richmond. Gregory W. Thomas, BR, is a senior credit analyst at Keystone Financial Inc. He and his wife, Beth Ann , Live in Lansdale, Pa. Kristine Sweet Volp, JW, works as a human resources administrator at Liberty Technologies Inc. She and her husband, Rich Volp,JR, live in Lansdale, Pa. Adam C. Wells, R, of Johnson City, N.Y. , graduated with honors from St. John 's U. LawSchool. He works as a law clerk for a federal district judge and passed the New York Bar exam. Julie Schucht Whitlock, L, of Richmond, joined the law firm of Thompson &McMullan. David A. Winter, GB, of Richmond, joined Chesapeake Corp. as director of human resources on Dec. I, 1997. He was formerly director of human resources at Best Products Co. Inc.
From the Westhampton Class Secretary ALISSA MANCUSO 3308-G Forest Edge Court Richmond, VA 23294 Rhonda Gaines, B, joined the staff of the Prudential Insurance Co. of An1erica in Richmond. Kristen Almond Phelps, W, is a continuing professional education assistant for the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants in Richmond.
'95 Blythe L. "Buffy" Bailey, AW, of Vero Beach, Fla. , is planning a move to Truckee, CaLif. She has been traveLing with her kayak around the United States and the world. She went to New Zealand last winter and Nepal this past fall. Wendy K. Bruce, AW, of Ardmore, Pa., works as a human resourcestaffing consultant for CIGNA Corp. in Philadelphia. SaraJ. Candioto, AW, planned to graduate from Notre Dame Law School in May 1998 and join Littler Mendelson in Los Angeles as an associate. Brian R. Donnelly, AR, of White Plains, N.Y. , works as a research assistant at Mt. Sinai Medical Center. He also is completing his master's degree in public health at Columbia U. Karen E. Dunivan, L, of No,folk, Va. , joined the law firm of Thompson &McMullan. Tracy Marie Flynn, AW, works as a technical recruiter at Technical Search Corp. in Richmond.
Raymond F. Geoffroy III , AR, graduated from Emory Law School in May. He is an associate with the Richmond law firm of Hunton &Williams. Patricia L. Hooker, AW, is a third-year graduate student in the clinical psycholob'Y doctoral program UNC-Chapel Hill. Ruth Amber Kavanagh, AW, works as an assistant buyer for Neiman-Marcus in Dallas. David W. Kleinschuster, AR, received his master's degree in counseling from Springfield College and works as a drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselor. He and his ,vife Live in Claymont, Del. Bridget A. Kratt, AW, lives in Sydney, Australia, where she is working on her master's degree in biotechnology at the U. of New South Wales. Michelle Charlotte Lam, C, plans to graduate from the T.C. Williams School of Law in 1999. She hopes to pursue a career in the field of intellectual property. Dara L. McNew, BR, works at Culligan Water Treatment Inc. in Baltimore. Pamela A. Mortimer, AW, of Columbus, Ohio, graduated a semester early from Capital U. Law School with a ce11ification in labor and employment law. She has been editing a law school textbook in a new area of law. Kimberly P. Roberts, AW, moved to Arlington , Va. , where she works as a staff associate for the House International Relations Committee in Washington, D.C. Hyewon Sok, AW, of Richmond, plans to graduate from MCV in May 1999 with a degree in pharmacy. Kevin D. Thornton, AR, of Midlothian, Va. , works as a histo,y teacher at Monacan and Clover Hill high schools in Chesterfield County. Bessie E. Whitlock, AW, of Statesboro, Ga. , worked as a Grand Canyon river guide for Diamond River Adventures last summer. She is a graduate student in recreation administration at Georgia Southern U.
Bonnie Atwood, L, joined David Bailey Associates, a Richmond firm that provides intergovernmental relations services to associations and businesses. Diana Lynn Cichewicz, AW, of Richmond, is a second-year graduate student in the Ph.D. program for pharmacology and toxicology at MCV. Carmen Fifer, BW, lives in Annapolis, Md. , and is awaiting the results of an application to OCS for Navy intelligence. Kathy Gallagher, AW, works as a consultant with Xperts, a software design firm in Richmond's
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Carytown. She specializes in technical writing and Web site development. She lives with Jennifer Berbach, AW, who works as a graphic designer at Visual Resources and owns her own graphic design firm . Jessica Stuart Hallberg, AW, of Richmond, teaches first grade at Randolph Elementary in Goochland County, Va. She lives with Cindy Poindexter and Erika Nelson, both AW. Sheryl Herndon, L, of Richmond, joined the office of commonwealth 's attorney for Henrico County as an assistant commonwealth 's attorney. Daniel G. K.leinschuster, AR, is an account representative and lives with his wife, Dana Allen Kleinschuster, AW'94, in Richmond. Elizabeth Clare Mackenzie,JW, is in a dual master's degree program in international peace and conflict resolution and theological studies at American U. and Wesley Theological Studies. She lives in Georgetown. Richard Alexander Maher, R, of Mobile, Ala. , works as manager of Tide Line Outfitters, a retail store for fly fishing and wing-shooting equipment, clothing and gifts that complement the Orvis Lifestyle. Kimberly Jean Martin, AW, has taught English in a French high school , traveled throughout Euorpe and skied and hiked the Alps since graduation . She visited Erin Kinney, AW, in Hungary for Christmas 1997, and stayed in a villa on the Spanish Riviera for a week. She spent the summer of 1997 working on a kibbutz in Israel and also spent a week at a Buddhist monastery in India. (Her dad hopes she'll be home soon.) Francesca Claudia Merlini, AW, is an editorial assistant at Oxford U. Press in New York City. She lives in Rumson, N.J. Katherine Marie Newhart, AW, is a second-year veterinary student at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Va. Jennifer Lee Settle, AW, of Arlington , Va., is working on her master's degree in education for secondaiy science at George Mason U. Malia Tee, AW, moved to Arlington, Va., where she works as a legal assistant at a law firm in Washington, D.C. John George Un ice, JR, is a second-year law student at Pittsburgh Law School and works as a summer associate at a law firm . Vince VanderHeijden, AR, teaches German at Clover Hill High School in Chesterfield County, Va. Anne Margaret White, GB, is a resident engineer at the Virginia Department of Transportation in Ashland, Va.
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'97 April Mohnshine Abril, AW, works as a case manager with family preservation programs of Northside Mental Health Center in Tampa, Fla. Kathleen Healy Allen, BW, works as a sales agent at Virginia Asset Management in Richmond. Allegra Mathilde C. Black, AW, is a law student at Case Western Reserve U. School oftaw in Cleveland. William Boger, AR, of Glen Allen , Va. , was named account executive with Siddall, Matus &Coughter. Victoria Elizabeth "Vicky" Carle, BW, works as an administrative assistant at SYCOM Technologies in Richmond. She serves on UR's Young Graduate Program steering committee. Brent Clark, BR, is a graduate student of health administration at MCV in Richmond. Michael Vincent Collins, BR, works as an advertising coordinator at Rapp Collins Worldwide in New York City. Christopher Patrick Compton, BR, of Baltimore, works at Lincoln Financial Advisors. Darin Conti, BR, is a physical transfer specialist with Wheat First Union in Glen Allen, Va. Jeromy John Conell, AR, is a graduate student of organic chemistry at the U. of Illinois-Champaign. Autumn J. Fehr, JW, works as a human resource consultant at McGladrey &Pullen in Richmond. James Robert Felty, BR, works as a financial analyst at Paine Webber in Weehawken, NJ Maureen Jude Flood, AW, of Aldan, Pa. , is a Peace Corps volunteer trainee. RaelenneJ. Haeberle, L, joined the law firm of Hirschler, Fleischer, Weiberg, Cox &Allen as an associate. She specializes in areas of commercial litigation , employment law and bankruptly law. Dorian Lynn Haldeman, AW, is a veterinary medical student at the U. of Pennsylvania. Tara Anne Hamilton, BW, works as a staff auditor at KPMG Peat Manvick in Richmond. Elizabeth C. Harper, AW, completed her first year at Tulane Law School. She lives in River Ridge, La. Lyndsey Erin Harris, AW, works for her family's company, Harris Trucking, in Richmond. She also cheers ,vith an all-star cheerleading squad. Janice Martha Hohl, BW, works at Arthur Andersen in Washington , D.C. She lives 1vith Michelle Rick, AW'96, who attends George Mason Law School. Tara C. Houston, BW, works as a staff accountant at Deloitte & Touche in Richmond.
Taylor 0. Kay, AR, went to the Ivory Coast in West Africa as a volunteer in the U.S. Peace Corps for two years. Kristin D. Kennedy, AW, teaches at Salisbury Academy in Salisbury, N.C. Jessica L. Ley, AW, works at Boston College in Newton , Mass. Dana C. Makielski, L, is an associate at the Richmond law firm of Williams, Mullen, Christian &Dobbins.
Shannon Maynard, AW'9 7, worked in Grand Forks, ND ., to re-establish local food cupboards after the flooding in that area.
Melissa Mansfield, AW, joined the lobbying firm of Castleman & Graziano in Richmond. The firm specializes in health and human resources issues. Shannon Dawn Maynard, AW, worked in Grand Forks, N.D. , to reestablish local food cupboards and help people after the flooding in tl1at area. She will spend a year in a fellowship 1vith the Congressional Hunger Center in Washington, D.C. Gwynne Elizabeth McCue, BW, of Stratford, Conn., works in account management at Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer in New York City. Danielle Rene Mercatante, AW, is a pharmacology student in the Ph.D. program at UNCChapel Hill. Kathleen M. "Katie" Moore, BW, works in merchandising at Talbots in Hingham, Mass. William "Bryan" Myers, AR, is a graduate student of organic chemistry at the U. of Texas at Austin. Robert W. Partin, L, of Chester, Va., was named an associate ,vith the law firm of Mezzullo &Mccandlish. He specializes in litigation. Donald). Richardson, L, of Richmond, is an associate at the law firm of Williams, Mullen, Christian &Dobbins. Neil E. Richman, L, of Richmond, is an associate with the law firm of Hirschler, Fleischer, Weiberg, Cox &Allen. He specializes in securities, finan cing and general corporate law.
Laura Ann Ricker, BW, passed the CPA exam and works at Coopers & Lybrand in Richmond. Kathleen Ann Rucker, AW, of Howell, NJ, works as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, where she develops environmental education programs in five French schools. Gregory Edward Schmidt, AR, works as a computer programmer at Crestar Bank's technology center in Richmond. Kristin Parrish Swenton, BW, works as a marketing research analyst at Carmax corporate headquarters in Glen Allen, Va. Mark David Tanis, GB, moved to Salem, Va., where he is a commercial loan associate at NationsBank in Roanoke, Va. He formerlyworked as an MIS analyst with Capital One. Carianne Melissa Tucker, AW, of Chapel Hill, N.C., works as a teacher's assistant for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. William Hagood Turner Jr. , AR, works as a lab assistant and is a graduate student of biology at UR. Robert C. "Rob"Williams Jr., BR, is a trading assistant at HSBC Securities Inc. in New York City. Kimberly Blankenship Wilson, C, is an assistant vice president at NationsBank in Richmond. Thomas Allen Wright Jr., AR, works as a pharmaceutical sales specialist at Pharmacia &Upjohn in Lakeland, Fla.
MARRIAGES 1948/Patricia Parlow, W, and Herbert Broman, Feb. 26, 1997. They live in Fort Myers, Fla. 1951/lrene Blackburn, W, and George Capus Miller Jr., July 12, 1997, at St. Edward's Catholic Church in Richmond. They live six months of the year in Virginia and six months in Florida. 1974,Jeffrey W. Blanchard, R, and Sharon Lane, Aug. 30, 1997. They live in Centreville, Va. 1976/Kay Lambert, W, and Dennis Ryan King, June 7, 1997. They live in Richmond. 1983/Ernestine D. Belton, Cand C'96, and James H. Harris Jr. , May 25, 1997. They live in Richmond. 1985/Pamela A. Fornero, B, and Robert Kulesh, Nov. 8, 1997. They live in New York City. 1985/Tracy King, W, and Michael Mastaler, Oct. 10, 1997, at Sherwood Forest Plantation in Charles City, Va. They live in Poquoson, Va. 1985/Stewart G. Nunn, B, and Denise Hayes, Sept. 13, 1997. They live in Richmond. 1985/AlanJ. Zakin, R, and Barbara Chapman, September 1997, in Spring Lake, NJ They live in New York City.
1987/Pamela D. Gohn, W, and Mark Cassidy,June 15, 1996. They live in Chicago. 1988/Amy Klein, B, and Chris Gregory, October 1997. They live in Richmond. 1989/Terri Lynch, B, and Chris Carpe, December 1996. They live in Wilmington, Del. 1990,Jennifer E. Allan, W, and MarcoTallini,Nov.15, 1997. They live in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. 1990/Karen Golembeski, W, and James Ambler Gilmore, Sept. 6, 1997, in Alexandria, Va. Included in the wedding party were matron of honor Elizabeth Dechert Gilmore, W'90, and as a reader, Beth Van Parys George, W'90. The couple lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. 1991/Andrew T. Davis, B, and Suzanne Stamps, May 3, 1997. Included in the wedding party were groomsmen Craig Singewald, 8'9 1, and Dan Hender, R'9 l . The couple lives in Nashville. 1991/Christine Flynn, W, and Michael Berkson,Jan. 11, 1997. Included in the wedding party were bridesmaids Amy Henderson Wetzel and Carrie Hallberg O'Malley, both 8'91. The couple lives in Lincoln Park, NJ 1991/AmandaJohnston, B, and James C. Barden Jr. , September 1997. They live in Manakin-Sabot, Va. 1992/Matthew D. Alpert, B, and Stephanie Golinski , Oct. 18, 1997. Theylive in New York City. 1992/Sherry Creeger, W, and Richard Dineen, R, Sept. 6, 1997. They live in Clinton, NJ 1992/Scott A. Willis, B, and Katharine Chambers, May 1997, in Columbia, S.C. Included in the wedding party were best man , Bruce Willis, 8'82; Patrick Roberts, R'92 ; Chris Fair and Will Loving, both 8'92; singers,Jason Crum, R'92 , and Ayse Uzer Crowley, W'92; reader, Kerry Horan Crum, AW'93; and limo drivers, Charles Kemp, BR'94, and Mary Johnson , AW'94. The couple lives in Charleston, S.C. 1993/David Bradley, AR, and Kate Burke, Sept. I 3, 1997, in Harrisburg, Pa. Included in the wedding party were best man ,John Thompson, BR'93, and bridesmaid, Ellen Bradley, W'91. The couple lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. 1993,'.Jennifer Chropuvka, AW, and Ted Martin, May 25, 1997. Jennifer Howell, AW'93, was in the wedding. The couple lives in Chandler, Ariz. 1993/Heather C. Logan, AW, and Hal Lefever, Dec. 20, 1997, in Cape May, NJ They live in Lancaster, Pa. 1993/Megan Taylor, AW, and Ted Jefferson Shockley, AR'94, May 1997. Included in the wedding party were Jen Sentivan and Elaine Bowen, both AW'93; and Randall McLean, AR'94. The couple lives in Tucson, Ariz.
1994/Clare M. Blackwood, BW, andLeifLawson ,Sept.13, 1997,in Cannon Memorial Chapel. They Live in Richmond. 1994/Katherine Devilbiss, AW, andJohn B. Polhill Jr., AR'93, May 24, 1997. lncludedin the wedding party were Katherine Myers Burnette and soloist Jennifer Whipple, both AW'94; Baron Blakley, AR'93; and Dave Naude, AR'%. The homily was given by the groom's father, Dr. John B. Polhill Sr., R'60. The couple lives in Charlottesville, Va. 1994/Martha S. Jordan, AW, and ]. Todd Lawrence, Aug. I6, 1997. Included in the wedding were bridesmaids Catherine Bagwell, Jennifer Burnham Crooker, Kimberly Fawcett and Laura Steffick McNally and reader Kristie Gay, all AW'94. The couple lives in Philadelphia. 1994/Amy Kahler, AW, and Alfred Godwin, Nov. 22, 1997, in Villanova, Pa. Included in the wedding party were Laura Yeatts,JW'94; Meredith Sanderlin, AW'94; and reader, Katherine Bacon, AW'95. The couple lives in Drexel Hill, Pa. 1994/William R. Phelps, AR, and Colleen Reilly, Sept. 20, 1997. Included in the wedding were Scott Roberge and best man , Mike Duncan, both AR'94; and Chris Swanson, BR'94. The couple lives in Richmond. 1994/Kristine Sweet,JW, and Rich Volp, JR, Nov. I, 1997. Included in the wedding party were Brooke Taylor Culclasure,]W'94; Sabrina Starr, BW'94; and Melanie Morgan , Amy Schroeder and Marion Early, all AW'94. The couple lives in Lansdale, Pa. 1994/Gregory W. Thomas, BR, and Beth Ann McBrearty, May 3, 1997, in Allentown, Pa. They live in Lansdale, Pa. 1995/Susie Gill, AW, and Jeff Kleinschmidt,June 21, I 997, at Myers Park Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.C. Included in the wedding party were Jennifer Collins and Karen Gardner, both BW'95; and Meg Dowd, AW'95. The couple lives in Springfield, Va. 1996/Corrie Michele Spiegel, AW, and Christopher David Kiesel, AR, Dec. 20, 1997, in Erie, Pa. Included in the wedding party were Jill Doran, Tara Miller, Amy Torok Mendel and Carole Ann Zahumeny, all AW'96; EricJuban, AR'96; Bill Rohan, BR'96; and readers Roger Brewbaker, AR'96, and Andrew Assir, BR'96. The couple lives in Baton Rouge, La. 1997/HopeJ. Foley, L, and Jeffrey S. Fowler, R'92 , Nov. 7, 1997. They live in Richmond. 1997/Kathleen Healy, BW, and Rob Allen, AR'94, September 1997, in Baltimore. They live in Richmond.
1997/April Danielle Mohnshine, AW, and Vicente Raul Abril,July 13, 1997. Included in the wedding party were maid of honor Sharvari Dalal, AW'97; best man Dan Mohnshine, AR'00; and groomsmen Bryon LePere, AR'97, and Ivan Squire,JR'97. The couple Lives in Tampa, Fla.
BIRTHS 1976/Brooks E. Hatch, R, and his wife, Margaret Dusek, a son, Owen Dusek Hatch, Dec. 4, 1997. 1980/Sue Manely Eley, W, and her husband, Kevin , l\vin sons, George Schilling and William Morrison,June 15, 1997. 1980/Sherry Williams Shannon, W, and her husband, Steve, a son, Graham Watkins "Gray," Dec. 19, 1996. 1982ffracey Holgren Ivey, B, and her husband, Robert A. Ivey III, B, a daughter, Hayden Louise, Nov. 21, I 997. She joins a brother, Spencer, 4 1/2. 1983/Kimberly Corbin Aviles, W, and her husband, Dione!, a son, Thomas William, Dec. 6, 1996_ 1983/Bradford A.Johnson, R, and his wife, Tami , a daughter, Kalyn McKenzi, Nov. 20, 1997. She joins a brother, Austin. 1983/Katherine Barringer Seaman, B, and her husband, Thomas, a son,Jason, Feb. 5, 1996. 1984/Katharine Ford Albers, W, and her husband, Edwin, a son, Edwin Wolf III, Sept. 2, 1997. 1984,'.Jeffress F. Given, R, and his wife, Teresa, a son, Charles Arlington, March 26, 1997. He joins a brother, Freddy, 3. 1984/Gregory J. Hurley, R, and his wife, Amy, a son, Owen, Nov. 6, 1996. 1984/Ken Miller, B, and his wife, Renee, a daughter, Rebekah Marie, Nov. 15, 1997. 1984/Bennett Cave Rich, W, and her husband, Stephen, a son, Marshall Barrier, May 18, 1997. 1984/K. Lynn Sams Taylor, W, and her husband, Gordon, a daughter, Samantha Linnea, Dec. 20, 1997. 1985/Kirsten Richter Brown, B, and her husband, Robert, a daughter, Brianna Nicole, April 23, 1997. 1985/Karen Elsner Davey, W, and her husband, Scott, a daughter, Hanna Karen, Dec. I 6, 1997. 1985/Robert S.Jeffries, B, and his wife, Cindy, a daughter, Eve Virginia,June 26, 1997. 1986/Sue Ann Keleher Kane, W, and her husband,John, a daughter, Margaret Murney "Maggie," August 1997. 1986/Erica Bolster Marota, W, and her husband, Marlo, a daughter, Gina Waterman, Nov. 27, 1996. She joins a sister, Brianna Victoria, 4. 1986/Michael S. Simpson, B, and his wife, Debra, a daughter, VictoriaNicole, Oct. 24, 1997.
1986/Susan Hall Wilson, W, and
1990/Lorie Goode Ward, L, and
her husband, a son, Matthew Alexander, April 5, 1997. 1986/Peg McGovern Zelkowitz, W, and her husband,Jeff, a daughter, Zoe Alexandra, Feb. 28, 1997. 1987/Nancy Heim Brown, B, and her husband, R. Matt Brown, R, a son, Raymond Matthew Jr. , Nov. 3, 1997. He joins sister Elizabeth, 6. 1987/)ames P. Dugan, B, and his wife,Jackie, a son,John Vincent, Aug. 4, I 997. 1987/Margaret Gehret Erskine, B, and her husband,James, a son, James Harold IV "Jake, " Feb. 12, 1997. He joins a sister, Meredith. 1987/Elizabeth Apostle Hardy, B, and her husband, Richard H. Hardy Jr., B'85, a daughter, Sara Parker, April I, I 997. 1987/Jennifer Lynch, W, and her husband, Derek Weitzel, a son, Reid Carlyle,June 7, 1997. 1987,'.Julie McClellan, W, and her husband, Greg Beckwith, R'86, a daughter, Brittany Dawn, Nov. 16, 1997. 1987/Gay Graham Wagner, W, and her husband, Ned, a daughter, Nicole Cushing, Aug. 27, 1997. She joins a brother, Gordon, 3. 1988/Angela Saunders Jenkins, B, and her husband, Tom Jenkins, B, a son, Michael Carlyle, Dec. 18, 1997. He joins brother Matthew, 3. 1988/Beth Hallman Madarang, B, and her husband, Cesar Madarang, B'87, a son,Joshua Cesar, May 19, 1997. 1988/Barbara Kessenich Robertson, W, and her husband, Marsh, a daughter, Eileen Gibson , June 19, 1997. She joins sister Ashley and brother Will. 1988/Kristen Kelley Wood, B, and her husband, Cliff, a son, William Clifford III, April 4, 1997. He joins a sister, Katie, 3. 1989/Jenita Taylor Beach, B, and her husband, John R. Beach, R'88, a daughter,Jacie Lyn, Oct. 17, 1997. 1989/Lisa Ann Toomey Breckenridge, W, and her husband, Stephen, a daughter, AmeliaElizabeth,July 12, 1996. 1989/Lisa Hornbrook Metzger, B, and her husband, Stephen, a son, BenjaminJoseph,Aug.11 , 1997. He joins a brother. 1989/Kathleen Murphy Nittolo, W, and her husband,John , a son, John Francis "Jake," March 4, 1997. He joins a sister, Lindsay, 7. 1989/Karen Winuner Woods, B, and her husband, Robert Woods, B, a son, Nicholas Elliot, Nov. 16, 1997. He joins a brother, Parker, 3. 1990/)anine Cauvin Chilson, B, and her husband, Scott, a son , CameronJoseph,June 18, 1997 1990/Melanie Schmidt Smith, B, and her husband, Craig, a son, Corey,Jan. 3, 1998. He joins a brother, Craig, 3.
her husband, Ed, a daughter, Caroline Mae,Jan. 25, 1997. 1991/Kristin Anderson Canty, W, and her husband,John , a daughter, Alexandra McCall , Oct. 20, 1997. 1991/George F. Meyer lll, R, and his wife, Susie, a daughter, Anne Hathaway "Annie," Nov. 5, 1997. 1991/Elizabeth Salley Vittone, B, and her husband, Anthony Vittone, R'90 and L'93, a son, Anthony Fauster,Jan. 12, 1998. 1992/Elizabeth Patten Ramos, W, and her husband, Mario Ramos, R'93, a son, Alexander Patten, Oct. 30, 1997 1993/ShannonJones Collins, AW, and her husband, Christopher Collins, AR and G'97, a daughter, Allison "Brantley," Dec. 11, 1997. 1993/Elizabeth Gleason Seeber, BW, and her husband, Edward, a son, Owen Halligan, Oct. 27, 1997.
DEATHS 1922/Ruth Wallerstein Thalhimer, W, of Richmond, Dec. 7, 1997. She was active for many years on the Woman 's Board of Managers at Sheltering Arms Hospital and the Women's Council of the Virginia Museum. She was instrumental in the remodeling of the Westhampton College Deanery's garage into a guest cottage, which was named in her honor in 1985. The oldest graduate of The Collegiate Schools and the oldest member of the 13 Class Literary Society, she :~so was a lifelong member of Jefferson Lakeside Country Club and Congregation Beth Aliabah. 1923/Lawrencc M. Whitehurst, R, ofVenetia, Pa., March 9, 1997. He was a retired engineer of DECO Electronics Inc. in Leesburg, Va. He had been recognized for 20 years of voluntary service to the U.S. NavyMarine Corps Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS). During World War 11 , he served as an engineer for E.I. DuPont de Nemours in Joliet, ill. , and was an instructor at the U. of Illinois. He was a member of Arlington Baptist Church in Arlington, Va. 1925/John R. Cheatham, R, of Frederick, Md., Dec. 14, 1997. 1927IJ. Emerson Hicks Jr., R, of Richmond, March I 982. 1927/Cooper L. Myers, R, of Danville, Va., Aug. 31, 1997. 1927/Dr. Daniel H. Patrick, R, of Hazard, Ky., Feb. 4, I 990. He was a retired dentist. 1927/Alice Tyler, W, of Richmond, Aug. 28, 1997. 1928/Elizabeth Harris 'Ted" Jones, W, of Goochland, Va. , Nov. 30, 1997. She was a former high school English, Latin and
Spanish teacher. She served in the Army Air Corps as a c1yptographer during World War II. She served briefly as assistant librarian at UR before joining the Valentine Museum, where she established a system for cataloging the museum's photographic collection. For 10 years, she served :L~ an adjunct professor of Spanish at Richmond Professional Institute, now VCU. She :~so taught at John Marshall High School's evening school, in the Henrico County Public Schools and at Powhatan County Middle School before retiring in 1974. The many boards on which she served include the Friends of the Goochland Branch of the Pamunkey Regional Library, the Goochland-Powhatan Retired Teachers Association, and the Poetry Society of Virginia. 1928/Louise Figgs Nicholls, W, of Arlington, Wash. , Dec. 7, 1997. She received her master's degree from Columbia U. in 1956 and was an English teacher and guidance counselor in Accomack County, Va., for many years. She was member of St. George's Episcopal Church. 1928/Lucy Williams Seaton, W, of Richmond, April 18, 1997. 1929/Edgar Benjamin Franklin, R, of Savannah, Ga., Sept. 25, 1997. He was a retired colonel with the U.S. Air Force. 1929/Elmer B. "Ned" Potter, R and C'79, of Annapolis, Md., Nov. 22, 1997. He was professor emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy. He was a renowned historian and biographer who wrote Sea Power: A Naval Hist01y; Nimitz; Buff Halsey; andAdmira!Arleigh Burke. He was commissioned in the
Navy and assigned to the Naval Academy in 1941. During World War II, he achieved the rank of commander. After the war, he returned to the academy, where he eventually became chairman of the history department, a post he held for l\vo decades. He also taught at the Army, Naval and National War Colleges and was a 51-year member of the U.S. Naval Institute. 1930/Carroll Ryland Minor, R and G'33, ofBridgewater, Va. , September 1997. He was a retired director of the Division of Youth Services, a former superintendent of the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan, Va. , and the first chief parole officer of the state parole board. He was recognized as organizing Virginia's probation and parole system and desegregating the state's juvenile corrections facilities. He also served as ch ief probation officer for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and was assistant supervisor of classification at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C.
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1931/The Rev. James Arthur Cales Sr., R, of Chesapeake, Va. , Dec. 27, 1996. He attended the University of Chicago and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He served pastorates in churches throughout Virginia from 1935 until his retirement in 1975, when he became pastor emeritus of Surry Baptist Church in Surry, Va. 1931/Mary Catharine Seay Spencer, W, ofBuckingham , Va. , Jan. 30, 1998. Aretired teacher in the Buckingham County schools, she was a form er president of Buckingham Education Association. For three years she was a social worker and served as deputy clerk in Buckingham County. She was a life member of the Buckingham Rescue Squad and a member of Maysville Baptist Church, where she taught women 's Bible classes for 40 years. 1932/Valerie LeMasurier Jones, W, of Richmond, Jan. 2, 1998. Aretired teacher, she taught for a number of years at the Collegiate School for Girls, at the former Davis Day Nursery and at Peter Pan Kindergarten. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at U.Va. Amember of St. Paul's Catholic Church, the Alliance Francaise and the Virginia Historical Society, for several years she served as a Westhampton class secretary. 1933/Dr. Edwin C. Bryce II, R, of Richmond, Dec. 26, 1997. He earned his medical degree from MCVin 1938 and was an opthalmologist in practice with his uncle and brother until his retirement in 1979. He was a member of the An1erican Medical Association; the Richmond Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Society; and of Westover Hills United Methodist Church. 1933/Catharine Dawson Cox, W, of Richmond, Dec. 3, 1997. She taught English and French in schools in Virginia, Mississippi and Notth Carolina for 42 years before retiring in 1976. She earned a master's degree in French from MiddleburyCollege in 1940. 1934/Julia Adelle Donohue Martin, W, of Richmond, Jan. 7, 1998. She worked for many years in the Westhampton College Alumnae Office and served as past president of the Rollingwood Garden Club. Aformer chair of the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs, she was a judge in flower shows. She also was a member of All Saints Episcopal Church. 1934/Dr. Gilman Rackley Tyler, R, of Richmond, Sept. 14, 1997. He was a retired internist and form er chief of staff of three Richmondarea hospitals. He earned his medical degree from MCVin 1938. During World War 11, he served
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aboard a hospital ship in the Pacific Theater. After the war, he returned to Richmond, where he practiced until his retirement in 1983. He served as chief of staff at Richmond Memorial, Sheltering Arms and Retreat hospitals and for many years he was a volunteer at the Senior Center of Richmond and the Shepherd's Center, where he drove shut-ins to and from doctors' appointments. He also was a member of the Caduceus Club of Richmond and was active in the Sons of the American Revolution. 1936/Dr. Mary Ellen Stephenson, W, of Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 23, 1997. She served Mary Washington College for more than 30 years as a professor, as chair of the modern foreign languages department and as dean of women. In 1966-67 she taught French as an exchange professor at Women's Christian College in Madras, India. After retiring from Mary Washington in 1981 , she taught English to Spanish-speaking teachers at Instituto Panamericano in Panama under the program of World Council of Churches. A member of the Fredericksburg United Methodist Church, she volunteered in the missionary ministry of the United Methodist Church, was a hospice volunteer and in 1994 was honored as the Fredericksburg Women 's Club woman of the year. 1939/Louis A. Earles Jr. , R, of Spencer, W.Va.,Jan. 10, 1997. He was the retired president of Hughes Drugs Inc. Prior to that position he worked for the West Virginia Department of Health as director of social services, and earned his master's degree in social work from William and Mary. During World War II, he served in the Army. He was a past president of the Spencer Rotary Club and served on the board of stewards at St. John's Methodist Church. 1941/Virginia Garrett "Tinsy" Wimmer, W, of Richmond, Jan. 26, 1997. She was executive secretary at the Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Va. , from 1971 to 1979, and was a medical secretary at Children's Hospital and legal secretary at the Richmond law firm of Hunton and Williams. She was a member of Westover Hills United Methodist Church. 1941/Benjamin Harris McGehee, R, of Newport News, Va. ,Jan. 21, 1998. He retired in 1983 as vice president of finance of the Noland Co., where he had worked for 33 years. He was a director of Riverside Health Systems, Riverside Regional Medical Center and Crestar Bank. He also served on the board of directors of the Newport News Warwick Historical Preservations Association, was a form er member of the Peninsula Kiwanis Club and
was a charter member and former vestryman of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. 1941/Katherine Spencer "Miss Kitty" Philpott, W, ofBassett, Va. , Feb. IO, 1998. The widow of the late Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates, A.L. Philpott, she taught at Bassett High School and Fieldale Elementary School for several years. She was a longtime member of the Bassett Garden Club and Bassett Memorial United Methodist Church. 1942/Dr. Mann T. "M.T." Lowry, R, of Montpelier, Va. , April 8, 1995. 1942/Harold L. Manahan, R, of Richmond, Nov. 19, 1997. 1942/Edward R. Schapiro, R, of White Plains, N.Y., Nov. 13, 1997. He was a retired English teacher who taught for 30 years at White Plains High School. He served as vice president of the White Plains Retired Teachers Club and as an adjunct for Jewish War Veterans Post 191. He also sang in the senior choir at Westchester Reform Temple. 1945/Courtney Franklin Lawler, R, of Orange, Va., Dec. 24, 1997. He was a retired elementary school principal and former high school teacher and coach. After serving in the Army, he taught at Clifton Forge High School and Hargrave Military Academy before joining Orange County High School in 1956. He taught English, social sciences and physical education, and coached baseball, basketball and football there until 1963, when he became principal of Gordon Barber Elementary School. He earned his master's degree in education from U.Va. in 1966 and was principal of Orange County Elementary School until his retirement in 1983. He volunteered through Orange Presbyterian Church and the RappahannockRapidan Community Service Board, was a member of Gideons International and the Lions Club and was a charter member of the Optimist Club of Orange. 1946/Dr.John Boyd Bullock, R, of Richmond, Feb. 1, 1998. He was assistant medical director for Home Beneficial Life Insurance and a former internist. He practiced internal medicine for 38 years and served as a part-time assistant medical director for the Life Insurance Co. of Virginia for 29 years and later with Fidelity Banker's Insurance. After earning his medical degree from the U. of Maryland in 1948, he served in the Korean War as an Army captain, working in a front-line M.A.S.H. unit. He was a member of Reveille United Methodist Church, the Richmond Academy of Medicine and the Richmond Society of Internal Medicine.
1946/William Clement Cunningham, R, of Richmond, Feb. 11 , 1998. He was president of Cunningham Brokerage Co., and later of Commonwealth Cunningham for more than 25 years. He served as a lieutenant and navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He was an active member of Hanover Avenue Christian Church for 60 years and served as a deacon, elder, trustee and as chairman of the board. He served as a trustee of Lynchburg College and was a past president of the Richmond Food Broker's Club and the Grocery Manufacturer's Representatives. An avid golfer, in 1939 he was one of the youngest qualifiers to play in the U.S. Open. 1948/Russell Horace Horner, R, of Staunton, Va., Feb. IO, 1998. He was a retir~d special agent for the FBI, where he had worked for 20 years. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and worked for the Department of Corrections in Richmond prior to joining the FBI. He was a founder and active member of Christian Fellowship Baptist Church in Churchville, Va. , and was a private pilot in the Experimental Aircraft Association. 1948/Locke H. TriggJr., R, of Atlanta, Aug. 26, 1997. He was the retired president of Patterson Lumber and Supply Co. in Atlanta. 1949/George E. Kidd Jr., R, of Willow Grove, Pa.,July9, 1997. 1950/]ames Henry Young Sr. , R, of Midlothian, Va., Aug. 28, 1996. He served as sheriff of the City of Richmond for 25 years before his retirement in 1977. He organized and ran the first school for sheriffs, city sergeants and their deputies, and is credited with establishing the same type of uniforms and cars for all state sheriffs and getting the state to adopt reflective auto tags. He served as president of the National Sheriffs Association in 1971 and served as secretary-treasurer of the Virginia Sheriffs Association for nine years. Presidents Nixon and Ford appointed him to the National Private Security Advisory Council and Ford.also appointed him to serve on the National Uniform Crime Commission. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy. 1951/Malcolm Pollard McConnellJr., R, of Richmond, Aug. 17, 1997. From 1971 to 1983 he was the supervisor of special services for Henrico County Schools, coordinating educational programs for children with special needs. He taught high school English before earning his master's degree from U.Va. in 1955. He served as assistant principal at Warwick High School in Newport News, Va. , until 1960, when he began working in special education as a visiting teacher for Henrico County Schools.
1952/]ohn Walker Biscoe Jr., of
Richmond, April 23, 1996. He was a retired employee of C&P Telephone Co. of Virginia. He served in the Navy in both World War II and Korea. Amember of St. Matthews Episcopal Church, he belonged to many organizations including the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry, the Greeters Unit of Richmond, Sons of the Confederate Veterans and Lee Jackson Camp #1. 1953/Dr. Marie Joy Mason, W, of Tucker, Ga. , March 6, 1997. 1957/William A. "Bill"Julias, Rand L.'60, of Harrisonburg, Va. , Jan. 1, 1998. He was an attorney and president of the Harrisonburg law firm ofJulias, Blatt & Blatt. He was a founder and chairman of the board ofF&M Bank-Massanutten and served as a member of the F&M National Corp. board of directors. Apast president of Harrisonburg-Rockingham Bar Association, he also was a member of the board of governors of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, was a former chairman of the Harrisonburg City School Board and a past Exalted Ruler of the B.P.O.E. Harrisonburg No. 450 Elks Lodge. He was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. 1957/Alfred S. Roos, B, of Merrick, N.Y. ,June 20, 1996. 1958/Virginia Harris Sauer, W, of Wilmington, N.C. , Oct. 29, 1997. 1961/Carrie Payne Barker, G, of Richmond and Huntington, W.Va., Dec. 16, 1997. She taught English in Richmond and Huntington, W.Va. , for manyyears and was active in Kappa Delta Gamma. 1963/Russell C. Baur Sr., B, of Mechanicsville, Va.,June 19, 1997. He was a retired accountant with the Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation. 1965/Barry S. Eden, R, of Tamarac, Fla. ,June 6, 1996. He was an attorney with the law firm of Eden & Rubin. 1969/Dr. Michael Starr Sanford, R, of Richmond, Sept. 27, 1997. He earned his degree in dentistry from MCV and practiced in the Richmond area for more than 25 years. 1972/Ronald Marvin Pearce, C, of Richmond, Nov. 20, 1997. 1974/]acquelyn Pyles Kannan, W, of Richmond, April 1996. 1981/Pamela Elliott Rakestraw, W, of Chicago, Sept. 14, 1997. 1998/Lawrence Stephen Witkus, BR, of New Bern, N.C., April 29, 1998. He was a University Scholar.
THE COMING HISTORICAL RENAISSANCE In our fast-paced culture of information technology, there is concern that our society is losing its ties with the past. Recent studies such as that sponsored by the Bradley Commission on History in Schools and the Ravitch and Finn study,
What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature, have confirmed an alarming ignorance of the influence of the past on current events. In another time the mention of an important date such as 1066, which signifies the Norman invasion of England with the attending defeat of the Saxon ruling house at the Battle of Hastings, would probably have elicited at least a flash of recognition, but these days teachers hold their breath when they explore a student's historical knowledge. Lee Harvey Oswald, wasn't he the drummer for the Doors? Pizzaro , isn't that an Italian fast food restaurant at the mall? Taj Mahal, oh, forward for the Lakers? Cut off from the past, our children may be growing up in an environment where the sordid revelations of talk shows make prime time news and little time is taken for reasoned reflection. Not infrequently, the observer is caught thinking that a problem is so new and bizarre that a solution is impossible. Even worse, some may conclude that a solution is actually possible when it is not, whereupon treasure and blood may be spilled in vain. Are we casting up a generation cut off from its past, unable to understand the historic forces breaking against it from all sides? Perhaps. We could wring our hands in desperation, call for vast new government expenditures, or hunker and pray that some miracle will spare us the ill effects of this creeping callowness. I would like to offer several suggestions that if applied might reverse this trend. First, those of us who are professional historians have a part in this prospective renaissance .We have a double task: the profession must continue to produce clear and accurate historical work, but it also must be willing to get that work out to a wider audience.
Before the 19th century, much of written history was hagiography-the glorification of some leader, dynasty, national or ethnic group. Often it was the casual repetition of unexamined legends and stories passed between generations, with little concern for accuracy of fact or interpretation. By the turn of the century, however, historians were insisting on a more exact, even scientific , search for data-and on a more dispassionate analysis. The best historical work today involves the meticulous examination of primary documents , periodic reexamination of long-held conclusions, and rigorous debate about interpretation. In the face of declining historical knowledge, historians must continue to do the best scholarly work possible.At the same time they must seek every opportunity to make the results of this effort interesting and arresting to a wider audience . This is risky business. Laying out your work for wider public scrutiny may reveal it as irrelevant or even boring.At the same time, producing history that is not boring also is dangerous. Such an enterprise may
BY DR. DANIEL M. ROBERTS JR. Dan Roberts is assistant professor of liberal arts in the University 's School of Continuing Studies, and he also teaches in the UR history department. He is the producer and host of National Public Radio 's A Moment in Time, heard by more than a million listeners each weekday.
invite the disdain of some historians who see the exercise as trivial and themselves as keepers of the holy grail. Society as a whole also must accept responsibility for this slide into ignorance, but must do so by some fundamental policy adjustments. We must insist that history be an integral part of school curricula at all levels; no student should be more than 12 months away from a course in history. We also must devote increased resources to the development of excellent classroom teachers. Remember your best teachers? For me, they were those who stimulated learning instead of simply conveying information: Holliday, Ulmer, Metzger, Rilling, Havran. They were teachers who loved their subject and loved their students .This love was infectious. How do we get more people like that? One way is to increase the luster and prominence of the profession of teaching. Another way is remove some of the financial struggle that often discourages our best students from becoming our best teachers. Finally, historical institutions and schools must expand their horizons. The vast majority of our citizens do not attend classroom lectures (no matter how brilliant). Unfortunately, few will see museum exhibits or haunt the aisles of public libraries, but they do watch television and shop the malls. Schools and colleges must seek alliances with those who control access to mass media-newspapers, television, radio, films-and with them develop creative and entertaining ways of conveying the lessons of the past into the marketplace.Why not place museum exhibits on the second floor of the city's most popular shopping mall? Why not history on MTV? Even with a coordinated effort, the decline in the knowledge of history might continue.Yet the effort is a worthy one. If we arrest this descent, the results will be a better-informed society, a more seasoned electorate , and more prudent leaders tempered by a deeper understanding of the past. w
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Alumni College held A new component of Alumni Weekend this year was the Alumni College held Friday, May 1. Eight classes led by University of Richmond faculty and staff were available for those attending reunions as well as for alumni from the Richmond area. "Although educational sessions were held in connection with Westhampton College reunions some years ago, this is the first time we've had an Alumni College offering on a 8 university-wide basis," says Jane Stockman, ~.n W'58, executive director 0 it of alumni affairs. Stockman says the Alumni College offers an opportunity for alumni to connect with their alma mater on an intellectual level and to get to know some of the current faculty members. Cecelia Coleman instructs Rod O'Flaher~)', R'39, and Dot Snell Wood, IV'.39, on using the Internet. The most popular class was "Introduction to the Internet," held in a computer lab in Jepson Hall and taught by Cecelia Coleman, academic consultant in the university computing department. Also available were: • "Ethics in Leadership," taught by Dr.Joanne B. Ciulla, holder of the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies • "The History, Ecology and Stewardship ofWesthampton Lake,'' taught by Dr.John W Bishop, professor of biology • "A Moment in Time: the Boston Massacre," by Dr. Daniel Roberts Jr. , assistant professor of history and assistant professor of liberal arts • "Director's Tour of the Marsh Art Gallery Exhibits," by gallery director Richard Waller "Wellness ... Not Just a Piece of the Pie,'' by Carol L.Johnson, director of wellness • "What Does the Future Hold for Social Security?" by Dr. DanielJ. Palazzolo, associate professor of political science, and "Bringing Your Career into Focus,'' by Andrew M. Ferguson, director of the Career Development Center. Alumni participants, who ranged from 1930s graduates to a member of the Class of 1996, liked "the opportunity to be in an academic environment again" and the "opportunity to hear stimulating current professors on topics of general interest,'' according to a follow-up survey.The Alumni College was coordinated by Paul 0. Hagenmueller Jr. , R'67 and assistant to the director of alumni affairs. Two Alumni College Abroad programs are planned by the alumni office for June 1999, one in Scotland and the other in Italy.
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The \f/esthampton College Class of 1958 presented a portrait ofJane Stockman, \f/'58, executive director of alumni affairs, at their reunion dinner on May 1. Painted by Lo,yn Brazier, the portrait will hang in the Jepson Alumni Center Stockman is shown with Marion]. Stokes, professor of mathematics emerita.
Young alumni return
Members of the Class o/ 1988 enjoy gathering in the Tyler Haynes Commons on May 2. Shown are, Ji-om le.ft, Melanie Kintigh, \17'88, Karen McCord Dempsey, B'88; Grace Brady, \f/'88; Melanie Dickerson Butterwonh, \f/'88; and]ane \f/arren Hedgepeth, \f/'88. Sharing memories
Remembering their days in the Theta Chi ji-atern.ity are Sim Taylor, R'4 7, le.ft, and \f/allace B. Gordon, R'48. lflith them are their wives, Millicent Hutcherson Taylor, \f/'48, and Elizabeth Gordon.
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The crowd bidfarewell to Dr. and Mrs. Morrill by presenting them with a painting of the Garden Party, completed during the evening by artist Susan Staulet:
A French garden party was the theme for the 28th annual Rector's Club Garden Party, which took place atJepson Alumni CenterJune 4. Among the guests were, from left, Elsie Mattingly Dickinson, W'40, and Alfred] Dickinson 1/1, R'37; and Mary H. Hudgins.
Business school campaign concludes With renovation of the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business well underway, the $5.5 million Campaign for Technology to support the improvements is drawing to a close, according to campaign chair David L. Heavenridge, B'69. As of June 1, $4,598,703 was committed to the campaign. Expected to complete the goal is a $1 million challenge grant from the Robins Foundation, pledged in 1997 to be given once the campaign had raised $4.5 million. The campaign has received three gifts of $500,000 or more; six gifts of $100,000 to $499,000; and more than 20 gifts of $25,000 to $99,000. More than 25 gifts of $5 ,000 have been made to sponsor renovation of faculty offices.
"This renovation will serve as a hallmark date in the business school's history," says Heavenridge. "We 're staking our claim among business schools as a leader in technology and innovation." The classrooms undergoing renovation will be ready for use this fall and will be wired and "hot " for computer connections next spring. When wiring is completed, students will be able to plug in their laptops for direct access to the University's network and the Internet .As renovations continue, business school faculty and staff have temporarily relocated to office space in Sarah Brunet Memorial Hall. Dedication of the building will be in the spring of 1999, after all work is completed.
Vaughn Conference Room
Gift from first graduate A significant gift to the Campaign for Technology has come from Emmett L. Allen Jr. , the first ever business school graduate. Since his name began with A, Allen was the first graduate to receive a diploma from Dean F. Byers Miller, left, in 1950. Allen has run the Glen Allen Supermarket in Glen Allen, Va., for more than 35 years, as his father did before him. He continues to attend all Spider football and basketball games. Also shown is student government president Walter H. Nelson, right.
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A reception on April 22 honored C. Porter Vaughn Jr., R'40 and H'87,for whom the conference room in the alumni office wing ofJepsonAlumni Center is named. The room features photos of Vaughn and newspaper clippings ofhis athletic achievements. Vaughn, shown with Chancetlor E. Bruce Heilman, is a University trustee and member of the UR Athletic Hall ofFame.
50th i?EUNIO~ Westhampton College Class of '48
Forty al1111nwe oftbe Westhampton Class of '48 gathered 011 campus Friday. May 1, for induction i11to the Boatwright Society. Tbey came togetber again 011 Saturdayfor di1111er i11 tbe Richmond Room o/tbe University Club.
Richmond College Class of '48
More than half the 90 members o/tbe Richmond College Class of "48 came /Jome to UR J\lay 1-2. Tbe)' u> ere inducted into the Boatu•rigbt Society Friday nigbt and enjoyed dinner Saturday 11igbt with tbe Westbampton College Class of '48. u,IJeretbeJ' beard). Earle Dun/ore/. R"48. remi11isce about earlier days at the University of Richmond.
First alumni picnic
More than 600 alumn i came to their new home for an Al1111n1i Weekend pirnic a/Jepson Alumni Centero11 Saturday. The celebration featured pirnicfare i11 the courtyard. live music. tours of the center and a cbildreu 's activity room.
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SP,rini Celebrations Westhampton College Celebration Night Helen Melton lukhard, W'.56, congratulates her granddaughtei; Rebecca Lindsay Nicholls, AW'0l, who receiued a Westhampton College scholarship April 19 at Westhampton College Celebration Night. Nicholls is the daughter of the late Helen Lindsay Luk/Jard, W'78
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Christie Getman,JW'97; Nicole Carson, AW'97; and Brian Hirsch, AR'97, feast at the Young Grad Tent Party on University Row at the Strawheny Hill Races on April 7 7. To illustrate the Route 66 theme, the UR tent was decorated as the "Spider Diner. "Some 200 recent graduates from asfar away as New York and Atlanta attended the eighth annual event.
Delegatesfrom different Richmond College classes came together April 7for thejirst Richmond College Commitment Night. They toured construction of tbe Whitehurst facility near tbe men 's residence balls, bad dinner and heard presentations, then wrote letters to their classmates requesting support. Shown are, from leji, Richmond College Dean Richard A. Mateer; Fletcher Stiers.fr., R'48_: J. Earle Dunford, R'48; and Cornelius E. "Gorky " Hohmann, R'.51.
Dunlora Society spritig meeting More than 50 members of the Dunlora Society for retired facul(y and stajf held a luncheon in Jepson Alumni Center on April 21. Shown are Dr. Jackson I Taylo1; R'42 and professor of physics emeritus, and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Taylo,; professor of mathematics and computer science emerita.
Lake Society host families Sixteen families of the Lake Society who basted 41 international students this yeargatbered at a dinner on April 18. Among them were, ji-om leji, Stefan Savou, AR'00, ji-om Bulgaria; Bradley Ban; Dr. Ca rot Byrd Ban; W' 76,¡ Andrew Barr; Im ran Hassan, AR '00, from Saudi Arabia; Ann Cameron Barr: and Dr. Mark C Ban; R'76.
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MODUN CENTER TIIIRD SEASON This work by Alexander Calder from the Marsh Art Gallery's permanent collection will be on view as part of its 30th anniversary celebration and to open the Modlin Center's third season. Seep. 22.